"How do you know?", sentence 13
Bulls can't tell red from green well; they charge at the moving cape, not at its colour.
Who acts: Bulls · What happens: not tell, charge · To what, where: red, green, moving cape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «"How do you know?"» 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 (Bulls), 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 | Bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 green | case |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | obl |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 tell | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 charge | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 charge | nsubj |
| 11 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 cape | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cape | det |
| 14 | moving | moving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cape | compound |
| 15 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 charge | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 colour | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 colour | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 colour | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 colour | nmod:poss |
| 20 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cape | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | can | Bulls | red | green | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient | ||
| 2 | charge | present | Bulls = bull | the moving cape and way's colour | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory |
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:186-how-do-you-know.lesson:13.
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, 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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