Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 4
Knowing this helps you understand why a family's week is planned round a piece of paper on the fridge.
Who acts: Knowing, you · What happens: know, help, understand, plan · To what, where: this, you, week · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» 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 (Knowing, you), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 helps | csubj |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Knowing | obj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 helps | obj |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helps | xcomp |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 planned | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 week | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 family | case |
| 10 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 planned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 planned | aux:pass |
| 12 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 understand | ccomp |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 piece | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 planned | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 paper | case |
| 17 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 fridge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fridge | det |
| 20 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | help | present | Knowing | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | understand | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | plan | present · passive | a family's week | round a piece of paper on the fridge | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.lesson:4.
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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