Big feelings in big people, sentence 1
They are just better, most of the time, at keeping them in.
Who acts: children · What happens: be, keep in · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» 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 (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 better | advmod |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 most | punct |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 most | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeping | punct |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 keeping | mark |
| 12 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 better | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 keeping | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 keeping | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | children = child | most of the time obl; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep in | gerund | children = child not said here | children = child | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:1.
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 ×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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