Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 12
A flat sheet of paper flops, but folded into a zigzag or rolled into a tube it can hold up a book.
Who acts: flat sheet, sheet · What happens: flop, fold, roll, hold up · To what, where: zigzag, tube, book
This is a sentence of the lesson «Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes» 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 (flat sheet, sheet), 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 | 3 sheet | det |
| 2 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sheet | amod |
| 3 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flops | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 paper | case |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sheet | nmod |
| 6 | flops | flop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hold | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flops | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 folded | cc |
| 9 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hold | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 zigzag | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 zigzag | det |
| 12 | zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 folded | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 rolled | cc |
| 14 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 folded | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 tube | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tube | det |
| 17 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rolled | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hold | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hold | aux |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 hold | compound:prt |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 book | det |
| 23 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hold | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flop | present | a flat sheet of paper | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fold | participle | sheet not said here | a zigzag | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into zigzag=Product | ||||
| 3 | roll | participle | sheet not said here | a tube | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tube=Destination | ||||
| 4 | hold up | can | sheet | a book | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot book=Theme |
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:086-building-strong-things.lesson:12.
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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