Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 27
Grumbling about a noisy party is easier than knocking, but a knock and a kind word usually fix it.
Who acts: Grumbling, knock · What happens: grumble, be, knock, fix · To what, where: party
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 (Grumbling, knock), 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 | Grumbling | grumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 easier | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 party | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 party | det |
| 4 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 party | amod |
| 5 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grumbling | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | cop |
| 7 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 knocking | mark |
| 9 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 easier | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fix | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fix | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 knock | det |
| 13 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fix | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 word | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 word | compound |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knock | conj |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 19 fix | advmod |
| 19 | fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 easier | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fix | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grumble speech: other | gerund | about a noisy party | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about party=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Grumbling | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | knock | gerund | Grumbling not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fix | present | a knock and a kind word | party | usually property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:27.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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