Active and passive voice, modal verbs, sentence 11
The passive can also hide who is responsible, as in "Mistakes were made."
Who acts: passive · What happens: hide, be, make · To what, where: Mistakes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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 (passive), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 passive | det |
| 2 | passive | passive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 hide | advmod |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 responsible | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 responsible | cop |
| 8 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hide | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 13 | Mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux:pass |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hide | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | can | the passive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | responsible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | past · passive | Mistakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×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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