Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 10

Listening at the door usually gives you only scary half-pieces; asking «Is everything OK?» later works much better.

Who acts: Listening, everything, asking · What happens: listen, give, ask, be, work · To what, where: scary half pieces, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» 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 (Listening, everything, asking), 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	Listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gives	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 door	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Listening	obl
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	6 gives	advmod
6	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 gives	iobj
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 scary	advmod
9	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pieces	amod
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 pieces	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gives	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct
14	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 works	csubj
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 OK	punct
16	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 OK	cop
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 OK	nsubj
18	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 asking	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 OK	punct
20	»	»	ADV	_	18 OK	advmod
21	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 works	advmod
22	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gives	parataxis
23	much	much	ADV	_	24 better	advmod
24	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 works	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund				at the door	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme
2	give	present	Listening	scary half pieces	you	usually property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	everything			ok property	tree rules
5	work	present	asking			late, 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:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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