Active and passive voice, modal verbs, sentence 14
"Will" sounds sure, "might" sounds unsure; "must" is strong and bossy, "could" is gentle and polite.
What happens: sound, be
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: 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 Will | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounds | aux |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Will | punct |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sounds | punct |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 sounds | aux |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 might | punct |
| 10 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounds | conj |
| 11 | unsure | unsure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sounds | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 strong | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 must | punct |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 strong | aux |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 must | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 strong | cop |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bossy | cc |
| 19 | bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 strong | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gentle | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 could | punct |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 gentle | aux |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 could | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 gentle | cop |
| 25 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 strong | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 polite | cc |
| 27 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gentle | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | future | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | sound | might | unsure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | must | strong property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | is | could | gentle property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be | tree rules |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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