Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 2
Fence posts: a 10-metre fence with a post every metre needs 11 posts, because there is one at 0 as well as one at 10.
Who acts: metre fence, one · What happens: need, be · 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, one), 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 | Fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 posts | compound |
| 2 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 needs | dep |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 needs | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fence | det |
| 5 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 metre | nummod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 10 | punct |
| 7 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fence | compound |
| 8 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 post | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 post | det |
| 11 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fence | nmod |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 metre | det |
| 13 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 post | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 posts | nummod |
| 16 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 needs | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 is | mark |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 needs | advcl |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 is | nsubj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 0 | case |
| 23 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 is | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 one | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 10 | case |
| 29 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 one | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 posts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a metre fence with a post | 11 posts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot post=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | one at 0 | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.
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, R6-punct-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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