Transport: from horses to planes, sentence 25
Most of the world's goods are carried by ship, because ships move huge loads cheaply.
Who acts: ships · What happens: carry, move · To what, where: Most, huge 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 (ships), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 goods | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goods | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 world | case |
| 6 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Most | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | aux:pass |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 move | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 move | mark |
| 13 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 move | nsubj |
| 14 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | advcl |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 loads | amod |
| 16 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 move | obj |
| 17 | cheaply | cheaply | ADV | _ | 14 move | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · passive | Most of the world's goods | by ship | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | move | present | ships | huge loads | cheaply property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme load=Result |
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: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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