Light, shadows and colours, sentence 13
Moving an object closer to a lamp makes its shadow bigger.
Who acts: Moving, object · What happens: move, make, shadow · To what, where: object, shadow
This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, shadows and colours» 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 (Moving, object), 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 | Moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Moving | obj |
| 4 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 object | amod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lamp | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lamp | det |
| 7 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 closer | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | obj |
| 11 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | 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 | gerund | a object | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent object=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Moving | object's shadow | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shadow=Product | |||
| 3 | shadow | object | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:053-light.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): R5-strong ×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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