Yes and no — there is no single word, sentence 6
Listen to the question, catch its verb, and give it back: that is the whole trick.
Who acts: you, that · What happens: listen, catch, give back, be · To what, where: verb, whole trick
This is a sentence of the lesson «Yes and no — there is no single word» of the chinese street 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, that), 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 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 question | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 question | det |
| 4 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Listen | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 catch | punct |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Listen | conj |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 verb | nmod:poss |
| 8 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 catch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Listen | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 trick | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 trick | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 trick | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trick | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trick | amod |
| 19 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Listen | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | imperative | you not said here | to the question | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to question=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | infinitive | you not said here | question's verb | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give back | infinitive | you not said here | verb | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | the whole trick | 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:chinese-street:004-yes-and-no.lesson:6.
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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