Big feelings in big people, sentence 15
"Must be nice" said quietly about a friend's holiday is a small bit of jealousy; adults feel it too, and it is only a problem if it turns into unkindness.
Who acts: holiday, adults · What happens: be, say, feel, turn · To what, where: small bit, holiday, problem, unkindness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (holiday, adults), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nice | punct |
| 2 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 nice | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nice | cop |
| 4 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nice | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nice | conj |
| 7 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 holiday | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 holiday | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 friend | case |
| 12 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bit | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bit | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bit | amod |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 jealousy | case |
| 18 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 20 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nice | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | obj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 feel | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 problem | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 problem | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 problem | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 problem | cop |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 problem | advmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 problem | det |
| 30 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nice | conj |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 turns | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turns | nsubj |
| 33 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 problem | advcl |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 unkindness | case |
| 35 | unkindness | unkindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turns | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nice | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | nice property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | quietly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a friend's holiday | a small bit | of jealousy | tree rules | |||
| 4 | feel | present | adults | holiday | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | holiday | a problem | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | turn a condition, not said to happen | present | holiday | unkindness | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into unkindness=Trajectory |
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:15.
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): R6-punct-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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