Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 5
Nan drops a jar of jam after a black cat crosses the road, but coming first is not the same as causing.
Who acts: Nan, black cat, coming · What happens: drop, cross, come, not be, cause · To what, where: jar, road
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» 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 (Nan, black cat, coming), 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 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drops | nsubj |
| 2 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 jar | det |
| 4 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drops | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 jam | case |
| 6 | jam | jam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jar | nmod |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 crosses | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cat | det |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cat | amod |
| 10 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crosses | nsubj |
| 11 | crosses | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drops | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crosses | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 same | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 same | cc |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 same | csubj |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 coming | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 same | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 same | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 same | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 drops | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 causing | mark |
| 23 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 same | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | Nan | a jar of jam | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cross | present | a black cat | the road | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | coming | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cause | gerund | coming not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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