Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 21
«Business» is busy + ness, with the y changed to i.
Who acts: Business, y · What happens: be, change · To what, where: busy + ness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english 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 (Business, y), 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 Business | punct |
| 2 | Business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ness | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Business | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ness | cop |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ness | amod |
| 6 | + | + | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ness | amod |
| 7 | ness | ness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 y | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 y | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 y | det |
| 11 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ness | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 i. | case |
| 14 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 changed | obl |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Business | busy + ness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past | the y | to i. result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to i.=Result |
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:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:21.
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): 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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