Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 14
Cutting a log into 4 pieces takes 3 cuts; at 2 minutes a cut, that is 6 minutes.
Who acts: Cutting, that · What happens: cut, take, be · To what, where: log, 4 pieces, 3 cuts, 6 minutes
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 (Cutting, that), 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 | Cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 takes | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 log | det |
| 3 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cutting | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 pieces | case |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 pieces | nummod |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cutting | obl |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 cuts | nummod |
| 9 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 takes | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 minutes | case |
| 12 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 minutes | nummod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 takes | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cut | det |
| 15 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 minutes | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 minutes | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 minutes | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 minutes | cop |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 minutes | nummod |
| 20 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 takes | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 takes | 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 | cut | gerund | a log | 4 pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into piece=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | present | Cutting | 3 cuts | minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | that | 6 minutes | tree rules |
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:14.
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): 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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