Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 17
Never sign something you do not understand; asking questions first is what sensible adults do.
Who acts: you, asking, sensible adults · What happens: not sign, not understand, ask, be, do · To what, where: something, questions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 (you, asking, sensible 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 sign | advmod |
| 2 | sign | sign | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 sign | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 understand | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 understand | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 understand | advmod |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 something | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 asking | punct |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 what | csubj |
| 10 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asking | obj |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 asking | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 sign | parataxis |
| 14 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adults | amod |
| 15 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sign | imperative | you not said here | something | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not understand | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | questions | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | asking | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | present | sensible adults | vn act-114-1 «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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.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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