Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 5
Many traps come from thinking in straight lines: things that double don't grow evenly (lily pads), handshakes grow faster than the number of kids, and a price that goes up by half and then down by half doesn't come back.
Who acts: Many traps, things, handshakes, price · What happens: come, think, double, not grow, grow, go up · To what, where: straight lines
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 (Many traps, things, handshakes, price), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 traps | amod |
| 2 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 5 thinking | mark |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 come | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 lines | case |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lines | amod |
| 8 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thinking | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 grow | punct |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grow | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 double | nsubj |
| 12 | double | double | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grow | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 grow | advmod |
| 15 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | parataxis |
| 16 | evenly | evenly | ADV | _ | 15 grow | advmod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 pads | punct |
| 18 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pads | compound |
| 19 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 things | appos |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 pads | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grow | punct |
| 22 | handshakes | handshake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grow | nsubj |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 grow | conj |
| 24 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 grow | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 number | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 number | det |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 faster | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kids | case |
| 29 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 number | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 come | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 come | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 price | det |
| 33 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 come | nsubj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 goes | nsubj |
| 35 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 price | acl:relcl |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 goes | compound:prt |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 half | case |
| 38 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 35 goes | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 down | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 down | advmod |
| 41 | down | down | ADV | _ | 38 half | conj |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 half | case |
| 43 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 41 down | obl |
| 44 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 come | aux |
| 45 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 come | advmod |
| 46 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 grow | conj |
| 47 | back | back | ADV | _ | 46 come | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Many traps | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Many traps not said here | straight lines | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | double | present | things | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not grow | present · do-support | things | evenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow | present | handshakes | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go up | present | a price | by half | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | not come back | present · do-support | a price | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:183-sounds-right-but-is-wrong.lesson:5.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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