Trees and forests through the year, sentence 6
Counting the rings in a stump tells us roughly how old the tree was.
Who acts: Counting, tree · What happens: count, tell, be · To what, where: rings, stump, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees and forests through the year» 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 (Counting, tree), 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 | Counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tells | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rings | det |
| 3 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Counting | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 stump | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stump | det |
| 6 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Counting | obl |
| 7 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tells | iobj |
| 9 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 11 old | advmod |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 old | advmod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tells | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 old | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 old | cop |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | the rings | a stump | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Counting | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the tree | old, roughly property | 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:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.lesson:6.
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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