Pencils, paper and school things, sentence 4
Cardboard looks weak, but its wavy middle layer makes it strong, like the arches under a bridge.
Who acts: Cardboard, wavy middle layer · What happens: look, make · To what, where: Cardboard
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pencils, paper and school things» 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 (Cardboard, wavy middle layer), 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 | Cardboard | cardboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 layer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wavy | wavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 layer | amod |
| 8 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 layer | amod |
| 9 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 makes | nsubj |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 makes | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 arches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 arches | det |
| 16 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 makes | obl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 bridge | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bridge | det |
| 19 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arches | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Cardboard | weak property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Cardboard's wavy middle layer | Cardboard | like the arches under a bridge; strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:006-pencils-paper-and-school-things.lesson:4.
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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