Taiwan, China and the word «tensions», sentence 0
«Tensions» means a situation is tight and worried, like a rubber band pulled hard but not snapped.
Who acts: «, situation · What happens: mean, be, pull, not snap · To what, where: rubber band · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taiwan, China and the word «tensions»» of the politics 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 («, situation), 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 | « | « | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 2 | Tensions | tension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 « | flat |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tensions | punct |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 situation | det |
| 6 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tight | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tight | cop |
| 8 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 means | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 worried | cc |
| 10 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tight | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 band | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 band | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 band | det |
| 14 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 band | compound |
| 15 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tight | obl |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 band | acl |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADV | _ | 16 pulled | advmod |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 snapped | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 snapped | advmod |
| 20 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 pulled | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | « | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a situation | like a rubber band; tight property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a situation not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pull | participle | a rubber band not said here | hard property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not snap | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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:politics:029-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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