One counterexample is enough, sentence 15
Most dogs can't climb trees well, but some can scramble up.
Who acts: Most dogs, some · What happens: not climb, scramble up · To what, where: trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «One counterexample is enough» 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 (Most dogs, some), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 dogs | amod |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 climb | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 climb | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 climb | advmod |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 climb | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | _ | 5 climb | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scramble | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 scramble | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 scramble | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 scramble | aux |
| 12 | scramble | scramble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 climb | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 scramble | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not climb | can | Most dogs | trees | well property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | scramble up | can | some | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:187-one-counterexample-is-enough.lesson:15.
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. 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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