Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 17
A punt is a flat-bottomed boat pushed along with a long pole on shallow rivers; a painter is the rope at the front of a boat used to tie it up.
Who acts: punt, painter · What happens: bottom, be, push, use, tie up · To what, where: bottomed boat, shallow rivers, rope, front, boat, painter
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 (punt, painter), 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 punt | det |
| 2 | punt | punt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boat | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boat | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 5 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bottomed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 flat | punct |
| 7 | bottomed | bottom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 boat | amod |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 boat | acl |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 pole | case |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pole | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pole | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pole | amod |
| 14 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 rivers | case |
| 16 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rivers | amod |
| 17 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pushed | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 rope | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 painter | det |
| 20 | painter | painter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rope | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 rope | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rope | det |
| 23 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boat | parataxis |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 front | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 front | det |
| 26 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rope | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 boat | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 boat | det |
| 29 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 front | nmod |
| 30 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 boat | acl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 tie | mark |
| 32 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 used | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 tie | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 tie | compound:prt |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 boat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bottom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a punt | a bottomed boat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | push | participle | a bottomed boat not said here | shallow rivers | along a long pole | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent along pole=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | is a | present | a painter | the rope | the front of a boat | tree rules | |||
| 5 | use | participle | a boat not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tie up | to-infinitive | painter | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:17.
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. 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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