Digestion: from mouth to intestines, sentence 16
Without enough fibre, food moves slowly and a person can get constipated, which means finding it hard to poo.
Who acts: food · What happens: move, constipate, mean, find, poo · To what, where: person, Food · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Digestion: from mouth to intestines» 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 (food), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 3 fibre | case |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fibre | amod |
| 3 | fibre | fibre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moves | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fibre | punct |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moves | nsubj |
| 6 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 moves | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 constipated | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 constipated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 constipated | aux |
| 12 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 constipated | aux:pass |
| 13 | constipated | constipate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 moves | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 constipated | parataxis |
| 17 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 means | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 finding | obj |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 finding | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 poo | mark |
| 21 | poo | poo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hard | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 moves | 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 | move | present | food | without enough fibre; slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | constipate | can · passive | a person | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | find | gerund | Food | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | poo | to-infinitive | 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:033-digestion.lesson:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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