"If... then..." and its traps, sentence 0

"If it rains, the grass gets wet" is a one-way street: rain leads to wet grass.

Who acts: it, grass, rain · What happens: rain, get, be, lead · To what, where: way street · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «"If... then..." and its traps» 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 (it, grass, rain), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 street	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 rains	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rains	nsubj
4	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gets	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rains	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gets	nsubj
8	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 street	csubj
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gets	xcomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 street	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 street	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 street	det
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 way	nummod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 street	compound
16	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 leads	punct
18	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leads	nsubj
19	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 street	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 grass	case
21	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grass	amod
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leads	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 street	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rain a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	it			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	get in a quote	present	the grass		wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present		a way street		tree rules
4	lead	present	rain		to wet grass	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to grass=Patient

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:184-if-then-and-its-traps.lesson:0.

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): R6-punct-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.

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