Roads and road signs, sentence 0
A road looks like a flat black strip, but it is really a layer cake.
Who acts: road · What happens: look, be · To what, where: layer cake
This is a sentence of the lesson «Roads and road signs» 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 (road), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | nsubj |
| 3 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 strip | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 strip | det |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 strip | amod |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 strip | amod |
| 8 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cake | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 cake | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cake | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cake | cop |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 cake | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cake | det |
| 15 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cake | compound |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looks | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a road | like a flat black strip | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | road | a layer cake | 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:031-roads-and-road-signs.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): 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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