Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 17
Galileo studied falling things about 400 years ago and showed that weight matters far less than people thought.
Who acts: Galileo, weight, people · What happens: study, fall, show, matter, think · To what, where: falling things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds right, but is wrong» 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 (Galileo, weight, people), 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 | Galileo | Galileo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 studied | nsubj |
| 2 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 studied | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 studied | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 showed | cc |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 studied | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 matters | mark |
| 12 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 matters | nsubj |
| 13 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 showed | ccomp |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 less | advmod |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 matters | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 less | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 studied | 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 | study | past | Galileo | falling things | ago property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||
| 2 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | Galileo not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | matter | present | weight | less property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:17.
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 ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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