Sounds right, but is wrong, sentence 6
Others hide a fence-post (6 strikes of a clock have only 5 gaps between them) or a whole hiding inside a part (a brick that weighs 1 kg and half a brick weighs 2 kg, not 1 and a half).
Who acts: Others, 6 strikes, brick, clock · What happens: hide, have, weigh, strike · To what, where: fence post, 5 gaps, 1 kg, 2 kg
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 (Others, 6 strikes, brick, clock), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 post | det |
| 4 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 post | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fence | punct |
| 6 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hide | obj |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 strikes | nummod |
| 9 | strikes | strike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 clock | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 clock | det |
| 12 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strikes | nmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 post | acl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 5 | advmod |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 gaps | nummod |
| 16 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gaps | nmod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 hiding | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 whole | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hiding | amod |
| 23 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 post | conj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 26 part | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 part | det |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hiding | nmod |
| 27 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 brick | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 brick | det |
| 29 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hiding | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 weighs | nsubj |
| 31 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 brick | acl:relcl |
| 32 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 kg | nummod |
| 33 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 weighs | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 weighs | cc |
| 35 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 37 brick | det:predet |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 brick | det |
| 37 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 weighs | nsubj |
| 38 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 weighs | conj |
| 39 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 kg | nummod |
| 40 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 weighs | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 1 | punct |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 1 | advmod |
| 43 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 31 weighs | appos |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 half | cc |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 half | det |
| 46 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 43 1 | conj |
| 47 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 brick | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Others | a fence post or whole hiding inside a part | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | 6 strikes of a clock | 5 gaps | between Others = other | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | |||
| 3 | weigh | present | a brick | 1 kg | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value | ||||
| 4 | weigh | present | half brick | 2 kg | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value | ||||
| 5 | strike | a clock | nom strike «act intransitive»: of=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:6.
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 ×2, 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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