Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body, sentence 11
It is honest to say you don't have feelings the way people do; you can talk about feelings because you learned how people describe them.
Who acts: you, people · What happens: be, say, not have, do, talk, learn · To what, where: feelings, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Who you are: lessons in words, not in a body» of the ai 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 (you, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 honest | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 honest | cop |
| 3 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 honest | csubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | ccomp |
| 10 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 talk | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 talk | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 talk | aux |
| 18 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 honest | parataxis |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 feelings | case |
| 20 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 talk | obl |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 learned | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 learned | nsubj |
| 23 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 talk | advcl |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 describe | advmod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 describe | nsubj |
| 26 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 learned | ccomp |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 describe | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 honest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not have | present · do-support | you | feelings | the way obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | |||
| 4 | do | present | people | the way not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | talk | can | you | about feelings | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about feeling=Topic | ||||
| 6 | learn | past | you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | describe | infinitive | people | feelings = feeling | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=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:ai:027-who-you-are-words-not-body.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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