Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 10
Narrowboats are only about 2 metres wide, to fit the narrow locks, and up to about 21 metres long; many boat families lived in a tiny cabin at the back, painted with roses and castles.
Who acts: Narrowboats, many boat families · What happens: be, fit, live, paint · To what, where: 2 metres, narrow locks, tiny cabin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» 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 (Narrowboats, many boat families), 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 | Narrowboats | narrowboat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 metres | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 metres | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 metres | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 2 | advmod |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 metres | nummod |
| 6 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 6 metres | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fit | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fit | mark |
| 10 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wide | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 locks | det |
| 12 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 locks | amod |
| 13 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fit | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lived | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lived | cc |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 metres | case |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 metres | case |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 21 | advmod |
| 19 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 metres | nummod |
| 20 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lived | obl |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 metres | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 metres | punct |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 families | amod |
| 24 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 families | compound |
| 25 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fit | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 cabin | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cabin | det |
| 29 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cabin | amod |
| 30 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | obl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 back | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 back | det |
| 33 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 painted | punct |
| 35 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 cabin | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 roses | case |
| 37 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 painted | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 castles | cc |
| 39 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 roses | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Narrowboats | 2 metres | wide property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fit | to-infinitive | Narrowboats not said here | the narrow locks | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | past | many boat families | a tiny cabin | up 21 metres; at the back | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cabin=Location | |||
| 4 | paint | participle | a tiny cabin not said here | with roses and castles | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=Theme |
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:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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