Mixtures and how to separate them, sentence 1
Sieving separates pieces of different sizes: small bits fall through the holes and big ones stay behind.
Who acts: Sieving, small bits, big ones · What happens: separate, fall, stay · To what, where: pieces, holes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mixtures and how to separate them» 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 (Sieving, small bits, big ones), 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 | Sieving | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 separates | nsubj |
| 2 | separates | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 separates | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sizes | case |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sizes | amod |
| 6 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pieces | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 fall | punct |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bits | amod |
| 9 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fall | nsubj |
| 10 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 separates | parataxis |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 holes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 holes | det |
| 13 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fall | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stay | cc |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stay | nsubj |
| 17 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fall | conj |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 17 stay | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 separates | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | present | Sieving | pieces of different sizes | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | small bits | the holes | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hole=Location | ||||
| 3 | stay | present | big ones | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «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:019-mixtures-and-separating.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/19-mixtures-and-separating/1/