Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 9
The horse walked along the towpath beside the canal, pulling the boat by a long rope, while someone on the boat steered with the tiller, a long handle at the back, just like the barge-woman in the book.
Who acts: horse, someone · What happens: walk, pull, steer · To what, where: canal, boat
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 (horse, someone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 towpath | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 towpath | det |
| 6 | towpath | towpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 canal | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 canal | det |
| 9 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pulling | punct |
| 11 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulling | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 rope | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rope | amod |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pulling | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 someone | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 steered | mark |
| 20 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 steered | nsubj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 boat | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boat | det |
| 23 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 someone | nmod |
| 24 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 tiller | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tiller | det |
| 27 | tiller | tiller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 steered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 handle | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 handle | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 handle | amod |
| 31 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tiller | appos |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 back | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 back | det |
| 34 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 handle | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 woman | punct |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 41 woman | advmod |
| 37 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 woman | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 woman | det |
| 39 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 woman | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 barge | punct |
| 41 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rope | conj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 book | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 book | det |
| 44 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 woman | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the horse | the canal | along the towpath | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along towpath=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | pull | gerund | the horse not said here | the boat | by a long rope and the barge woman in the book | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | |||
| 3 | steer | past | someone | with the tiller | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:9.
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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