Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 18
Never comment on someone's weight; you don't know if they are ill, grieving or just healthier.
Who acts: you, Sunglasses · What happens: not comment, not know, be, grieve · To what, where: weight
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 (you, Sunglasses), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 comment | advmod |
| 2 | comment | comment | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 weight | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 weight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 6 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comment | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 comment | parataxis |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 ill | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ill | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ill | cop |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 know | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grieving | punct |
| 17 | grieving | grieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ill | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 healthier | cc |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 healthier | advmod |
| 20 | healthier | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 ill | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comment | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not comment speech: other | imperative | you not said here | someone's weight | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | Sunglasses | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grieve | gerund | Sunglasses not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | be | Sunglasses 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:18.
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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