Borrowing and debt, sentence 10
Sorting it is the grown-ups' job, not the child's, and asking for help early is the sensible move.
Who acts: Sorting, asking · What happens: sort, grow, be, ask · To what, where: Debt, job, sensible move
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» 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 (Sorting, asking), 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 | Sorting | sort | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 job | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Sorting | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 job | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 job | det |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ups | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ups | punct |
| 7 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 job | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 ups | case |
| 9 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 child | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 child | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 job | conj |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 child | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 move | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 move | cc |
| 17 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 move | csubj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 asking | obl |
| 20 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 asking | advmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 move | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 move | det |
| 23 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 move | amod |
| 24 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 job | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 job | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort | gerund | Debt | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | Sorting | grown ups's job and the child and the sensible move | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help; early property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | asking | the sensible move | 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:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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