Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 1
Boats are among the oldest ways to travel, because water carries heavy loads easily.
Who acts: Boats, water · What happens: be, travel, carry · To what, where: heavy loads
This is a sentence of the lesson «Transport: from horses to planes» 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 (Boats, water), 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 | Boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ways | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ways | cop |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 ways | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ways | det |
| 5 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 ways | amod |
| 6 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 travel | mark |
| 8 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ways | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 travel | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 carries | mark |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | nsubj |
| 12 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 travel | advcl |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 loads | amod |
| 14 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carries | obj |
| 15 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 12 carries | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ways | 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 | is | present | Boats | among the oldest ways | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | carry | present | water | heavy loads | easily property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=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:099-transport-horses-to-planes.lesson:1.
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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