Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 2
We choose a tool that fits the job: a ruler or tape measure for length, scales for mass, a clock or stopwatch for time and a thermometer for temperature.
Who acts: We, tool · What happens: choose, fit · To what, where: tool, job
This is a sentence of the lesson «Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature» 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 (We, tool), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tool | det |
| 4 | tool | tool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 choose | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 fits | nsubj |
| 6 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tool | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 job | det |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fits | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruler | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ruler | det |
| 11 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 job | appos |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 measure | cc |
| 13 | tape | tape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 measure | compound |
| 14 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruler | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 measure | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scales | punct |
| 18 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ruler | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 mass | case |
| 20 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scales | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clock | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 clock | det |
| 23 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruler | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 stopwatch | cc |
| 25 | stopwatch | stopwatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clock | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clock | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thermometer | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thermometer | det |
| 30 | thermometer | thermometer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clock | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 temperature | case |
| 32 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thermometer | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 choose | 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 | choose | present | We | a tool | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tool=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | a tool | the job | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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:090-measuring-the-world.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): R7-rel-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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