Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 17
When something bad happens to someone, like a burglary, blame the person who did it, not the person it happened to.
Who acts: something, you, person, it · What happens: happen, blame, do · To what, where: person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (something, you, person, it), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 happens | advmod |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 happens | nsubj |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 blame | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 someone | case |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 happens | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 burglary | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 burglary | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 burglary | det |
| 10 | burglary | burglary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happens | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blame | punct |
| 12 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blame | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 person | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 person | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 person | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 person | appos |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 person | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 happened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | something | to someone; like a burglary | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blame | imperative | you not said here | the person | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the person | person | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | it | the person not said here | tree rules |
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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): R5-strong ×3, 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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