Trick questions that catch quick thinkers, sentence 9
A kilogram of feathers weighs exactly the same as a kilogram of bricks; the feathers just take up much more space.
Who acts: kilogram, feathers · What happens: weigh, take up · To what, where: same, more space
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» 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 (kilogram, feathers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kilogram | det |
| 2 | kilogram | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weighs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 feathers | case |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kilogram | nmod |
| 5 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 same | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weighs | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 kilogram | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 kilogram | det |
| 11 | kilogram | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 same | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bricks | case |
| 13 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kilogram | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feathers | det |
| 16 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 take | advmod |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weighs | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 take | compound:prt |
| 20 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 space | amod |
| 22 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weighs | 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 | weigh | present | a kilogram of feathers | the same | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value | ||||
| 2 | take up | present | the feathers | more space | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme |
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:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers.lesson:9.
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): 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.
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