Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them, sentence 8
Asking questions and asking for a hug are always allowed.
What happens: ask, allow · To what, where: questions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Scary news: wars, disasters and how to talk about them» 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: 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 allowed | advcl |
| 2 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Asking | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 asking | cc |
| 4 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Asking | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hug | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hug | det |
| 7 | hug | hug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asking | obl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 allowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 allowed | advmod |
| 10 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for a hug | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | allow | present · passive | always property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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:051-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them.lesson:8.
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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