The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom), sentence 37
Today nurses can be women or men, and listening to them is just sensible.
Who acts: listening · What happens: be, listen · To what, where: women
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» of the books 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 (listening), 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 | Today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nurses | compound |
| 2 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 women | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 women | cop |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nurses | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 women | cc |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 women | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sensible | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sensible | cc |
| 10 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 sensible | csubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 listening | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sensible | cop |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 sensible | advmod |
| 15 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 nurses | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nurses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | women and men | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | women = woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | listening | sensible property | 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:books:046-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up.lesson:37.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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