Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz, sentence 12
"Break a leg" is a theatre way of saying good luck.
Who acts: good luck · What happens: break, be, say · To what, where: leg, theatre way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» 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 (good luck), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Break | punct |
| 2 | Break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 leg | det |
| 4 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Break | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Break | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | compound |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 saying | mark |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 luck | amod |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break in a quote | infinitive | a leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a theatre way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | good luck | a theatre way not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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:040-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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