Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 25
Newcomers are busy and tired; the friendly thing is to say hello first instead of deciding they are «stuck up».
Who acts: Newcomers, friendly thing · What happens: be, decide, stick up · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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 (Newcomers, friendly thing), 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 | Newcomers | newcomer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 busy | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 busy | cop |
| 3 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tired | cc |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 busy | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 busy | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 say | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 busy | parataxis |
| 13 | hello | hello | INTJ | _ | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 say | advmod |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 deciding | mark |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | deciding | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 say | advcl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stuck | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 stuck | aux:pass |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 stuck | punct |
| 21 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 deciding | ccomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 stuck | compound:prt |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 stuck | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Newcomers | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Newcomers not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | the friendly thing | first, say property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | decide | gerund | the friendly thing not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | stick up in a quote | present · passive | things = thing | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:25.
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, R8-pos-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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