Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky, sentence 6
A mirror does not really swap left and right; it swaps front and back, which makes writing look back to front.
Who acts: mirror, front, writing · What happens: not swap, swap, make, look back · To what, where: left, front, writing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, rainbows and the blue sky» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mirror, front, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swap | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swap | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 swap | advmod |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 swap | advmod |
| 6 | swap | swap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swap | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 right | cc |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 left | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 swaps | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swaps | nsubj |
| 12 | swaps | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swap | parataxis |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swaps | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 back | cc |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 front | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 makes | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 makes | nsubj |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 front | advcl:relcl |
| 19 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makes | obj |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 look | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swap | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swap | present · do-support | a mirror | left | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent left=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swap | present | mirror | front and back | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent front=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | present | front and back | writing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look back | infinitive | writing not said here | to front | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to front=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:physics:021-mirrors-rainbows-and-the-blue-sky.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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