Colours, sentence 5
And never give a man a green hat: it is a famous joke about being made a fool of.
Who acts: you, hat, famous joke · What happens: not give, be, make · To what, where: green hat, man, famous joke, fool
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 (you, hat, famous joke), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 give | cc |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hat | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hat | amod |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 joke | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 joke | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 joke | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 joke | det |
| 13 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joke | amod |
| 14 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 made | mark |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 joke | acl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fool | det |
| 19 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fool | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | imperative | you not said here | a green hat | a man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient hat=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | hat | a famous joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund · passive | a famous joke not said here | a fool | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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: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, R8-pos-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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