Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 2
A periscope uses two mirrors to bend the path of light twice, so you can see over a wall or out of a submarine.
Who acts: periscope, you · What happens: use, bend, see · To what, where: two mirrors, path, wall
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 bend | mark |
| 7 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uses | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bend | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 path | nmod |
| 12 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 bend | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 uses | parataxis |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 wall | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 submarine | cc |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 submarine | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 submarine | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 submarine | det |
| 25 | submarine | submarine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wall | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | bend | to-infinitive | a periscope not said here | the path of light | twice property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent path=Material | |||
| 3 | see | can | you | a wall or a submarine | 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:2.
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 ×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.
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