Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 22
A bad picture fades faster if you fill your head with something else, like a favourite place, a game or a song.
Who acts: bad picture, you · What happens: fade, fill · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (bad picture, you), 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 | 3 picture | det |
| 2 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 picture | amod |
| 3 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fades | nsubj |
| 4 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 fades | advmod |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 fill | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 fill | nsubj |
| 8 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fades | advcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fill | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 something | case |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 fill | obl |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 something | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 something | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 game | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 game | det |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | conj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 song | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 song | det |
| 24 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fades | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | present | a bad picture | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill a condition, not said to happen | present | you | your head | with something | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with something=Instrument |
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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:22.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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