Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers, sentence 8
Metal rivets on jeans were patented (registered as an invention) in 1873 to stop pockets tearing on miners' work trousers.
Who acts: pockets · What happens: patent, register, stop, tear · To what, where: Metal rivets, 1873, pockets, work trousers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clothes: T-shirts, jeans and trainers» 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 (pockets), 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 | Metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rivets | compound |
| 2 | rivets | rivet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 patented | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 jeans | case |
| 4 | jeans | jeans | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 2 rivets | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 patented | aux:pass |
| 6 | patented | patent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 registered | punct |
| 8 | registered | register | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 patented | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 invention | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 invention | det |
| 11 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 registered | obl |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 registered | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1873 | case |
| 14 | 1873 | 1873 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 patented | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stop | mark |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 patented | advcl |
| 17 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stop | obj | |
| 18 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 pockets | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 trousers | case |
| 20 | miners | miner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 miners | case |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 trousers | compound |
| 23 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tearing | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 patented | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | patent | past · passive | Metal rivets on jeans | 1873 | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | register | participle | as a invention result | vn patent-101 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent as invention=Result | |||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | pockets | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pocket=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | tear | gerund | pockets not said here | miners's work trousers | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on trousers=Trajectory |
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:005-clothes-t-shirts-jeans-and-trainers.lesson:8.
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): R7-rel-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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