Starting a band, sentence 5
Many famous bands changed their names early on, and it is smart to check nobody else already uses a name.
Who acts: Many famous bands, nobody, decisions · What happens: change, be, check, use, name · To what, where: names, name
This is a sentence of the lesson «Starting a band» of the arts 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 (Many famous bands, nobody, decisions), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bands | amod |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bands | amod |
| 3 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 names | nmod:poss |
| 6 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 changed | obj |
| 7 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 on | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smart | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smart | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 smart | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 smart | cop |
| 13 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 changed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 check | mark |
| 15 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 smart | csubj |
| 16 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 uses | nsubj |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 16 nobody | advmod |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 uses | advmod |
| 19 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 check | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 name | det |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 uses | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Many famous bands | decisions's names | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Many famous bands not said here | smart property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | check | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | use | present | nobody | a name | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 5 | name | decisions = decision | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:arts:004-starting-a-band.lesson:5.
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): 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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