Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop, sentence 3

It cannot look out of the window, it cannot keep a secret like a friend, because chats may be stored, and it often cannot truly explain its own mistakes; its explanations of itself may be guesses too.

Who acts: blur · What happens: not look out, not keep, store, not explain, be, mistake · To what, where: window, secret, chats, own mistakes, guesses

This is a sentence of the lesson «Asking well, being polite, knowing when to stop» 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 (blur), 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	4 look	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 keep	advmod
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 secret	det
15	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obj
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 friend	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 friend	det
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 keep	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stored	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 stored	mark
21	chats	chat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stored	nsubj:pass
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 stored	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 stored	aux:pass
24	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 keep	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 explain	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 explain	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 explain	nsubj
28	often	often	ADV	_	32 explain	advmod
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 explain	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 explain	advmod
31	truly	truly	ADV	_	32 explain	advmod
32	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 look	parataxis
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mistakes	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mistakes	amod
35	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 explain	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 explanations	punct
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 explanations	nmod:poss
38	explanations	explanation	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 explain	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 itself	case
40	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	38 explanations	nmod
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 guesses	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 guesses	cop
43	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 itself	conj
44	too	too	ADV	_	32 explain	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not look out	can	blur	the window		tree rules
2	not keep	can	blur	a secret	like a friend	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	store	may · passive		chats		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not explain speech: assert	can	blur	blur's own mistakes	blur's explanations of blur obl; often, truly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Topic
5	is a	may	blur not said here	guesses		tree rules
6	mistake		blur			nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent
7	explain		blur			nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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:008-asking-well-and-knowing-when-to-stop.lesson:3.

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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