Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 1
Picture Luca's class watching a film of a chick pecking its way out of an egg with a tiny tooth on its beak that nobody taught it to use; the whole class goes «awww», and that feeling is wonder.
Who acts: you, class, chick, nobody, whole class, feeling · What happens: picture, watch, peck, teach, use, go · To what, where: class, film, way, egg, that, wonder
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» of the religion ethics 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 (you, class, chick, nobody), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Luca | Luca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 class | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Luca | case |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 class | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 film | det |
| 7 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watching | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chick | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chick | det |
| 10 | chick | chick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 film | nmod |
| 11 | pecking | peck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 chick | acl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pecking | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 egg | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 egg | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 egg | det |
| 17 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pecking | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tooth | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tooth | det |
| 20 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tooth | amod |
| 21 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pecking | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 beak | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beak | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tooth | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 use | obj |
| 26 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 taught | nsubj |
| 27 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 beak | acl:relcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 taught | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 use | mark |
| 30 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 taught | xcomp |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 goes | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 class | det |
| 33 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 class | amod |
| 34 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 goes | nsubj |
| 35 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 awww | punct |
| 37 | awww | awww | INTJ | _ | 35 goes | obj |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 awww | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 wonder | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 wonder | cc |
| 41 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 42 feeling | det |
| 42 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wonder | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 wonder | cop |
| 44 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 goes | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Luca's class | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent class=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Luca's class not said here | a film of a chick | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme | ||||
| 3 | peck | gerund | a chick not said here | chick's way | a egg | with a tiny tooth on tooth's beak | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Patient with tooth=Instrument | ||
| 4 | teach speech: other | past | nobody | way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | use | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | that | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | present | the whole class | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location awww=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | that feeling | wonder | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | film | a chick | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:religion-ethics:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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