"If... then..." and its traps, sentence 10

"If it rains, the grass is wet" does not mean "if the grass is wet, it rained"; sprinklers, dew and dogs wet grass too.

Who acts: it, grass, sprinklers · What happens: rain, be, not mean, wet · To what, where: grass · 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, sprinklers), 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	_	9 wet	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	9 wet	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wet	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wet	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wet	cop
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mean	ccomp
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 wet	punct
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 mean	advmod
13	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 rained	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 wet	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wet	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wet	cop
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rained	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wet	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rained	nsubj
22	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	ccomp
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 rained	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct
25	sprinklers	sprinkler	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 wet	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dew	punct
27	dew	dew	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sprinklers	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 dogs	cc
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sprinklers	conj
30	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mean	parataxis
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wet	obj
32	too	too	ADV	_	30 wet	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 mean	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	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	is in a quote	present	the grass		wet property	tree rules
3	not mean	present · do-support				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the grass		wet property	tree rules
5	rain in a quote	past	it			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
6	wet	present	sprinklers and dew and dogs	grass		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent 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:10.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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