Toys and Lego, sentence 3
Before a toy reaches a shop, testers pull, drop, chew-test and even burn samples on purpose, and a mark like CE or UKCA shows the maker says it meets the safety rules.
Who acts: toy, testers, mark, maker · What happens: reach, pull, drop, burn, show, say · To what, where: shop, samples, purpose, safety rules · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Toys and Lego» 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 (toy, testers, mark, maker), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 reaches | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 toy | det |
| 3 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pull | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shop | det |
| 6 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pull | punct |
| 8 | testers | tester | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pull | nsubj |
| 9 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drop | punct |
| 11 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pull | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 test | punct |
| 13 | chew | chew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 test | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 chew | punct |
| 15 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pull | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 burn | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 burn | advmod |
| 18 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pull | conj |
| 19 | samples | sample | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 burn | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 purpose | case |
| 21 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 samples | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shows | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shows | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mark | det |
| 25 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shows | nsubj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 CE | case |
| 27 | CE | CE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mark | nmod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 UKCA | cc |
| 29 | UKCA | UKCA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 CE | conj |
| 30 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pull | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 maker | det |
| 32 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 says | nsubj |
| 33 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 shows | ccomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 meets | nsubj |
| 35 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 says | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 rules | det |
| 37 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rules | compound |
| 38 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 meets | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | a toy | a shop | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | present | testers | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drop | infinitive | testers not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | burn | infinitive | testers not said here | samples | purpose | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sample=Theme | |||
| 5 | show | present | a mark like CE or UKCA | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | the maker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | meet | present | maker | the safety rules | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Co-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:007-toys-and-lego.lesson:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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