Tunnels and what lies under the street, sentence 8
Tunnel-boring machines are often given women's names, from an old tradition linked to Saint Barbara, the saint of miners.
Who acts: women · What happens: give, link, name · To what, where: Tunnel boring machines, old tradition, Saint
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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 (women), 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 | Tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 machines | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 machines | punct |
| 3 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 machines | amod |
| 4 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 names | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 women | case |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 given | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 linked | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 tradition | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tradition | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tradition | amod |
| 15 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obl |
| 16 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tradition | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Saint | case |
| 18 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 linked | obl |
| 19 | Barbara | Barbara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Saint | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saint | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 saint | det |
| 22 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Saint | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 miners | case |
| 24 | miners | miner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saint | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | Tunnel boring machines | a old tradition | often property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 2 | link | participle | a old tradition not said here | Saint | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to saint=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | women | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:029-tunnels-and-under-the-street.lesson:8.
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): no change. 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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