Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies, sentence 15
When someone gives a reason, like being ill, swapping it for a meaner guess is cruel.
Who acts: someone, reason, swapping · What happens: give, be, swap · To what, where: reason
This is a sentence of the lesson «Viral rumours, cancellations, fakes and apologies» 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 (someone, reason, swapping), 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 | 3 gives | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cruel | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ill | punct |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 9 ill | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ill | cop |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reason | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swapping | punct |
| 11 | swapping | swap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 cruel | csubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 swapping | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 guess | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 guess | det |
| 15 | meaner | meaner | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 guess | amod |
| 16 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swapping | obl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cruel | cop |
| 18 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cruel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | someone | a reason | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | a reason not said here | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swap | gerund | reason | for a meaner guess | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for guess=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | swapping | cruel property | 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:047-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies.lesson:15.
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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