What people leave behind, sentence 15

A keepsake can be very precious even when it is worth little money, so you should ask before touching it.

Who acts: keepsake, you · What happens: be, ask, touch · To what, where: worth little money, keepsake

This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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 (keepsake, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 keepsake	det
2	keepsake	keepsake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 precious	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 precious	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 precious	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 precious	advmod
6	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	13 money	advmod
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 money	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 money	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 money	cop
11	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 money	amod
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 money	amod
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 precious	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ask	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 ask	advmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 ask	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 ask	aux
18	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 precious	parataxis
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 touching	mark
20	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 ask	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touching	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 precious	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	can	a keepsake		precious property	tree rules
2	is a	present	keepsake	worth little money		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	should	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	touch	gerund	you not said here	keepsake		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:15.

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): R7-rel-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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