We're having a baby!, sentence 9
You should always ask before touching someone's bump.
Who acts: You, someone · What happens: ask, touch, bump · To what, where: bump
This is a sentence of the lesson «We're having a baby!» of the adult life 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 (You, someone), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | _ | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 touching | mark |
| 6 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ask | advcl |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 bump | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 someone | case |
| 9 | bump | bump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touching | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | should | You | always property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | You not said here | someone's bump | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bump=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | bump | someone | nom bump «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:adult-life:018-were-having-a-baby.lesson:9.
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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