Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 12
A 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts: one at 0 metres and one at every metre up to 10.
Who acts: metre fence · What happens: need · To what, where: 11 posts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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 (metre fence), 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 | 5 fence | det |
| 2 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 metre | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 10 | punct |
| 4 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fence | compound |
| 5 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 metre | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 post | det |
| 8 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fence | nmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 metre | det |
| 10 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fence | nmod |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 posts | nummod |
| 13 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 needs | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 posts | appos |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 0 | case |
| 17 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 metres | nummod |
| 18 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 one | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 metre | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 metre | det |
| 23 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | up | up | ADV | _ | 26 10 | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 10 | case |
| 26 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 one | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 needs | 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 | need | present | a metre fence a post with every metre | 11 posts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot post=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:182-sounds-wrong-but-is-right.lesson:12.
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 ×6. 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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