How we know: measuring the sky, sentence 1
Hold a finger at arm's length and wink one eye, then the other: the finger jumps against the wall.
Who acts: you, finger · What happens: hold, wink, jump · To what, where: finger, length, one eye, wall
This is a sentence of the lesson «How we know: measuring the sky» of the space 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, finger), 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 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 finger | det |
| 3 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 length | case |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 length | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 arm | case |
| 7 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wink | cc |
| 9 | wink | wink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eye | nummod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wink | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 other | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 other | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wink | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 jumps | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 finger | det |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jumps | nsubj |
| 19 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hold | parataxis |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 wall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jumps | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | a finger | arm's length | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | wink | infinitive | you not said here | one eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jump | present | the finger | the wall | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Trajectory |
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:space:028-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky.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): 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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