The internet and undersea cables, sentence 12
A search engine uses programs that crawl the web and build a huge index, then ranks pages for your words; results are not always true, so check sources.
Who acts: search engine, programs, results, your · What happens: use, crawl, build, rank, not be, check · To what, where: programs, web, huge index, pages, sources
This is a sentence of the lesson «The internet and undersea cables» 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 (search engine, programs, results, your), 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 | 3 engine | det |
| 2 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engine | compound |
| 3 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uses | nsubj |
| 4 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | programs | program | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 uses | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 crawl | nsubj |
| 7 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 programs | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 web | det |
| 9 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crawl | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 build | cc |
| 11 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 crawl | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 index | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 index | amod |
| 14 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 build | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ranks | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ranks | advmod |
| 17 | ranks | rank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 uses | conj |
| 18 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ranks | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 words | nmod:poss |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 ranks | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 true | punct |
| 23 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 true | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 true | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 true | advmod |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 true | advmod |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 uses | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sources | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 check | advmod |
| 30 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 uses | parataxis |
| 31 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 check | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | a search engine | programs | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent program=Patient | ||||
| 2 | crawl | present | programs | the web | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location web=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | present | programs not said here | a huge index | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset index=Product | ||||
| 4 | rank | present | a search engine not said here | pages | then | for your words | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent page=Theme | ||
| 5 | not is | present | results | always, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | check | infinitive | sources | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme | |||||
| 7 | word | your | nom word «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:037-the-internet-and-undersea-cables.lesson:12.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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