Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts, sentence 12
A spoiler tells the ending before someone has seen it; it is annoying, and spoiling on purpose is a small meanness that needs a "sorry".
Who acts: spoiler, someone, spoiling, small meanness · What happens: tell, see, be, spoil, need · To what, where: ending, spoiler, purpose, small meanness, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Favourite films and series: spoilers, binge-watching, streaming and adverts» 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 (spoiler, someone, spoiling, small meanness), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spoiler | det |
| 2 | spoiler | spoiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ending | det |
| 5 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 tells | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 annoying | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 annoying | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 annoying | cop |
| 14 | annoying | annoying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tells | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meanness | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 meanness | cc |
| 17 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 meanness | csubj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 purpose | case |
| 19 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoiling | obl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 meanness | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 meanness | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 meanness | amod |
| 23 | meanness | meanness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 annoying | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 needs | nsubj |
| 25 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 meanness | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sorry | det |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 sorry | punct |
| 28 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 needs | obj |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 sorry | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a spoiler | the ending | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ending=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | someone | spoiler | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | spoiler | annoying property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spoil | gerund | purpose | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | spoiling | a small meanness | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | need | present | a small meanness | a sorry | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sorry=Theme |
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:055-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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