"If... then..." and its traps, sentence 2
Two traps catch people all the time: running the "if" backwards ("the grass is wet, so it rained") and "not the first, so not the second" ("my cat isn't a dog, so it's not an animal").
Who acts: Two traps, grass, it, cat · What happens: catch, run, be, rain, not be · To what, where: people, if, dog, animal
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 (Two traps, grass, it, cat), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 traps | nummod |
| 2 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 catch | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 catch | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 catch | punct |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 catch | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 if | det |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 if | punct |
| 12 | if | if | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 running | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 if | punct |
| 14 | backwards | backward | ADV | _ | 9 running | advmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 wet | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 wet | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grass | det |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wet | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wet | cop |
| 20 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rained | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rained | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 rained | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rained | nsubj |
| 24 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 running | parataxis |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 rained | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 rained | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 first | cc |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 first | punct |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 first | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 first | det |
| 31 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 if | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 second | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 second | advmod |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 second | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 second | det |
| 36 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 first | conj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 dog | punct |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 45 dog | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 dog | punct |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 cat | nmod:poss |
| 41 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dog | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 dog | cop |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 dog | advmod |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 dog | det |
| 45 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 second | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 animal | punct |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 animal | advmod |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 animal | nsubj |
| 49 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 animal | cop |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 52 animal | advmod |
| 51 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 animal | det |
| 52 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 dog | parataxis |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 dog | punct |
| 54 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 45 dog | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | Two traps | people | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | Two traps not said here | the if | backward property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent if=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the grass | wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rain in a quote | past | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | present | my cat | a dog | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is a in a quote | present | grass | a animal | tree rules |
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:2.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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