Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 13
Parking rows are common, and knocking politely usually works better than an angry note.
Who acts: Parking rows, knocking · What happens: be, knock, work
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 (Parking rows, knocking), 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 | Parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rows | compound |
| 2 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 common | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 common | cop |
| 4 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 works | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 works | cc |
| 7 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 works | csubj |
| 8 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 7 knocking | advmod |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 works | advmod |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 common | conj |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 works | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 note | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 note | det |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 note | amod |
| 15 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 common | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Parking rows | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knock | gerund | politely property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | work | present | knocking | than a angry note; usually, well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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