Sounds wrong, but is right, sentence 3
Count the gaps and the posts separately; the same trap catches log cuts (4 pieces need only 3 cuts) and the snail in the well.
Who acts: you, same trap, 4 pieces · What happens: count, catch, need · To what, where: gaps, log cuts, 3 cuts
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 (you, same trap, 4 pieces), 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 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gaps | det |
| 3 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Count | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 posts | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 posts | det |
| 6 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gaps | conj |
| 7 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 1 Count | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 catches | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trap | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trap | amod |
| 11 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catches | nsubj |
| 12 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 13 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cuts | compound |
| 14 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 catches | obj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 16 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 pieces | nummod |
| 17 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 need | nsubj |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 catches | parataxis |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 3 | advmod |
| 20 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 cuts | nummod |
| 21 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 need | obj |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 snail | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snail | det |
| 25 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cuts | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 well | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 well | det |
| 28 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 snail | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | the gaps and the posts | separately property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | present | the same trap | log cuts and the snail in the well | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | present | 4 pieces | 3 cuts | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cut=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:3.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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