Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 15
A mirror that bulges outwards shows a wider view than a flat one.
Who acts: mirror · What happens: bulge, show · To what, where: wider view
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 (mirror), 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 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 bulges | nsubj |
| 4 | bulges | bulge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mirror | acl:relcl |
| 5 | outwards | outwards | ADV | _ | 4 bulges | advmod |
| 6 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 view | det |
| 8 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 view | amod |
| 9 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shows | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 view | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shows | 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 | bulge | present | a mirror | outwards property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | present | a mirror | a wider view | than a flat one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent view=Recipient |
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:15.
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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