Building strong things: bridges, towers and shapes, sentence 25
Folding or rolling a sheet of paper makes it much stiffer.
Who acts: Folding · What happens: folding, roll, make · To what, where: sheet
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 (Folding), 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 | Folding | folding | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 rolling | cc |
| 3 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Folding | conj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sheet | det |
| 5 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolling | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 paper | case |
| 7 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sheet | nmod |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 stiffer | advmod |
| 11 | stiffer | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | 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 | folding | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | a sheet of paper | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | Folding | sheet | stiff property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:25.
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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