Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 3
A good way to sort any bit of gossip is to ask four things.
Who acts: good way · What happens: sort, be, ask · To what, where: bit, four things
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 (good way), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sort | mark |
| 5 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 way | acl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sort | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gossip | case |
| 9 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bit | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 is | xcomp |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 things | nummod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ask | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | to-infinitive | a good way not said here | any bit of gossip | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a good way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | a good way not said here | four things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |
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:3.
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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