Colours, sentence 3
Even writing someone's name in red ink is avoided, because it was once used for the names of the dead.
Who acts: writing, someone · What happens: write, avoid, use, name · To what, where: name, red ink
This is a sentence of the lesson «Colours» 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 (writing, someone), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 writing | advmod |
| 2 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 10 avoided | csubj:pass |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 writing | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ink | case |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ink | amod |
| 8 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 avoided | aux:pass |
| 10 | avoided | avoid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 used | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 used | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | aux:pass |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 used | advmod |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 avoided | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 names | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 names | det |
| 19 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 used | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dead | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dead | det |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 names | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 avoided | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | gerund | someone's name | red ink | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in ink=Destination | ||||
| 2 | avoid | present · passive | writing | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | use | past · passive | name | for the names of the dead; once property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for name=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | name | someone | red ink | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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:008-colours.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): R7-rel-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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