Day and night, sentence 4

Try it with a torch and a ball in a dark room: spin the ball slowly and watch a sticker on it pass from light into shadow.

Who acts: you, Earth · What happens: try, spin, watch, pass · To what, where: Earth, ball, sticker, light

This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night» of the world 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 (you, Earth), 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	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Try	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 torch	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 torch	det
5	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Try	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ball	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 torch	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 room	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 room	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 room	amod
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ball	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 spin	punct
14	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ball	det
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spin	obj
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 spin	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 watch	cc
19	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 spin	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sticker	det
21	sticker	sticker	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watch	obj
22	on	on	SCONJ	_	24 pass	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pass	nsubj
24	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 watch	advcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 light	case
26	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pass	obl
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 shadow	case
28	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pass	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	Earth		with a torch and a ball in a dark room	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Patient with torch=Theme
2	spin	infinitive		the ball		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	watch	infinitive		a sticker			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sticker=Theme
4	pass	infinitive	Earth		light	into shadow	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from light=Initial_Location into shadow=Destination

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:world:001-day-and-night.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, 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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