Mirrors, shadows and colours, sentence 8
That is why a straw in a glass of water looks broken.
Who acts: That, straw · What happens: be, look, break
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 (That, straw), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 looks | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 straw | det |
| 5 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looks | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 glass | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 straw | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glass | nmod |
| 11 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | ccomp |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 looks | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | present | a straw in a glass of water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | a straw in a glass of water not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:8.
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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