Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 17
Sponsorship means people promise to give money to a charity if someone completes a challenge.
Who acts: Sponsorship, people, someone · What happens: mean, promise, give, complete · To what, where: money, charity, challenge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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 (Sponsorship, people, 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 | Sponsorship | sponsorship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 promise | nsubj |
| 4 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promise | xcomp |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 charity | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 charity | det |
| 10 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 completes | mark |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 completes | nsubj |
| 13 | completes | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 challenge | det |
| 15 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 completes | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Sponsorship | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | present | people | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | money | a charity | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to charity=Recipient | |||
| 4 | complete a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | a challenge | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Eventuality |
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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:17.
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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