Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 3
Curved mirrors change the picture: a mirror that bulges outwards shows a wide view, so it is used in car wing mirrors and shop corners.
Who acts: Curved mirrors, mirror · What happens: curve, change, bulge, show, use · To what, where: picture, wide view, mirror, car wing mirrors
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 (Curved mirrors, 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 | Curved | curve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mirrors | amod |
| 2 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 change | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 shows | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mirror | det |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 bulges | nsubj |
| 10 | bulges | bulge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mirror | acl:relcl |
| 11 | outwards | outward | ADV | _ | 10 bulges | advmod |
| 12 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 picture | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 view | det |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 view | amod |
| 15 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shows | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 used | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 used | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 used | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 used | aux:pass |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shows | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mirrors | case |
| 22 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mirrors | compound |
| 23 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mirrors | compound |
| 24 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 used | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 corners | cc |
| 26 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 corners | compound |
| 27 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mirrors | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curve | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 2 | change | present | Curved mirrors | the picture | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bulge | present | a mirror | outward property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | present | a mirror | a wide view | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent view=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | use | present · passive | mirror | car wing mirrors and shop corners | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:3.
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): R8-pos-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.
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