Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 20
Teasing people about who they like can stop them being friends at all.
Who acts: people, Teasing · What happens: tease, like, stop, be · To what, where: people, all, friends
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 (people, Teasing), 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 | Teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stop | csubj |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Teasing | obj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 who | case |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 like | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 people | acl:relcl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stop | aux |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 friends | cop |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stop | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 stop | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | gerund | people | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||||
| 2 | like | present | people | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot who=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | can | Teasing | all | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | gerund | people | friends | 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:20.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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