Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 17
Asking the other parent after one says no rarely ends well.
Who acts: one, Asking · What happens: ask, say, end · To what, where: other parent, no · 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 (one, 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ends | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 parent | amod |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obj |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 says | mark |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Asking | advcl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 10 ends | advmod |
| 10 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 ends | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the other parent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | one | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | ||||
| 3 | end | present | Asking | rarely, well property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.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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