Diggers, cranes and cement mixers, sentence 7
All these machines are amazing to watch, and the only safe place to watch them from is behind the fence.
Who acts: machines · What happens: be, watch · To what, where: machines, fence
This is a sentence of the lesson «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» of the technology 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 (machines), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 machines | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 machines | det |
| 3 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 amazing | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 amazing | cop |
| 5 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 watch | mark |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 amazing | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fence | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 amazing | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amazing | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 watch | mark |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 watch | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 fence | case |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fence | cop |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 fence | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fence | det |
| 21 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watch | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 amazing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all machines | amazing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | all machines not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | all machines not said here | machines = machine | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the fence | tree rules |
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:technology:028-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers.lesson:7.
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, 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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