Measuring the world — length, mass, time and temperature, sentence 5
Example: a 1-litre bottle of water has a mass of about 1 kilogram, so you can feel what a kilogram is just by lifting it.
Who acts: litre bottle, you, kilogram · What happens: have, feel, lift · To what, where: mass
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 (litre bottle, you, kilogram), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 litre | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 1 | punct |
| 6 | litre | litre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottle | compound |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottle | nmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mass | det |
| 12 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kilogram | case |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 1 | advmod |
| 15 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 kilogram | nummod |
| 16 | kilogram | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mass | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 feel | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 feel | aux |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 has | conj |
| 22 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 24 kilogram | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 kilogram | det |
| 24 | kilogram | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lifting | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lifting | aux |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 lifting | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 lifting | mark |
| 28 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 feel | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lifting | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a litre bottle of water | a mass of 1 kilogram | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mass=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | can | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lift | present · progressive | what kilogram | mass | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:090-measuring-the-world.lesson:5.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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