Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 5

So the smart move is to find the odd bit, underline it, and learn just that part, maybe with a trick: «Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants» spells BECAUSE.

Who acts: Big Elephants · What happens: be, underline, learn, understand, spell · To what, where: bit, part, Small Elephants, BECAUSE · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» 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 (Big Elephants), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 move	det
3	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 move	amod
4	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 find	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 move	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bit	det
9	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bit	amod
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 underline	punct
12	underline	underline	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 find	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 underline	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 learn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 learn	cc
16	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 find	conj
17	just	just	ADV	_	19 part	advmod
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 part	det
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learn	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 trick	punct
21	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	24 trick	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 trick	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 trick	det
24	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 learn	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 spells	punct
26	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 Understand	punct
27	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Elephants	amod
28	Elephants	elephant	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 Understand	nsubj
29	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 Understand	aux
30	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 Understand	advmod
31	Understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 spells	csubj
32	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Elephants	amod
33	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 Understand	obj
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 spells	punct
35	spells	spell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 learn	conj
36	BECAUSE	because	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spells	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 move	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			find property	tree rules
2	underline	infinitive		bit		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	learn	infinitive		that part	with a trick	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic
4	understand in a quote	can	Big Elephants	Small Elephants	always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer elephant=Stimulus
5	spell	present		BECAUSE		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent because=Theme

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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.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 ×1, 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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