Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 26

Some gossip is a shared joke, like a gnome sending postcards from Spain; it stays fun while the people in it are laughing too.

Who acts: gossip, gnome, people · What happens: share, be, send, stay, laugh · To what, where: shared joke, postcards, Spain

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 (gossip, gnome, people), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 gossip	det
2	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joke	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
5	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 joke	amod
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gnome	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 gnome	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gnome	det
10	gnome	gnome	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joke	appos
11	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gnome	acl
12	postcards	postcard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sending	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 Spain	case
14	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 postcards	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fun	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stays	nsubj
17	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	parataxis
18	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stays	xcomp
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 laughing	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 laughing	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 people	nmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 laughing	aux
25	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 stays	advcl
26	too	too	ADV	_	25 laughing	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 joke	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	share	participle					tree rules
2	is a	present	some gossip	a shared joke			tree rules
3	send	gerund	a gnome not said here	postcards	Spain		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent postcard=Theme from spain=Initial_Location
4	stay	present	gossip			fun property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	laugh	present · progressive	the people in gossip				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:26.

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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