Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 14
A periscope uses two mirrors to let you see over things.
Who acts: periscope, you · What happens: use, let, see over · To what, where: two mirrors, you, things
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mirrors, 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 (periscope, you), 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 periscope | det |
| 2 | periscope | periscope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mirrors | nummod |
| 5 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 let | mark |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uses | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 see | advmod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 see | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | 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 | use | present | a periscope | two mirrors | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | a periscope not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see over | infinitive | you not said here | things | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:084-mirrors-shadows-colours.lesson:14.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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.
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