The brain, nerves and the five senses, sentence 19
A reflex is a quick, automatic action, such as pulling your hand off something hot.
Who acts: reflex · What happens: be, pull off · To what, where: quick automatic action, hand
This is a sentence of the lesson «The brain, nerves and the five senses» 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 (reflex), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 reflex | det |
| 2 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 action | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 action | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 action | det |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 action | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 7 | automatic | automatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 action | amod |
| 8 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulling | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 pulling | mark |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 action | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulling | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 pulling | compound:prt |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 pulling | obj |
| 17 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 something | amod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 action | 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 | is a | present | a reflex | a quick automatic action | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull off | gerund | a reflex not said here | your hand | 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:034-brain-nerves-senses.lesson:19.
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): no change. 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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