Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 10
Neighbours sometimes disagree about hedges, fences, noise or rubbish, and most disputes are solved by a friendly chat.
Who acts: Neighbours, friendly chat · What happens: disagree, solve · To what, where: most disputes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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 (Neighbours, friendly chat), 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 | Neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disagree | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | _ | 3 disagree | advmod |
| 3 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 hedges | case |
| 5 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disagree | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fences | punct |
| 7 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hedges | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 noise | punct |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hedges | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 rubbish | cc |
| 11 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hedges | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 solved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 solved | cc |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 disputes | amod |
| 15 | disputes | dispute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 solved | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 solved | aux:pass |
| 17 | solved | solve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 disagree | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 chat | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chat | det |
| 20 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chat | amod |
| 21 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 solved | obl:agent |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disagree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | present | Neighbours | about hedges and fences and noise or rubbish; sometimes property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about hedge=Topic | ||||
| 2 | solve | present · passive | a friendly chat | most disputes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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