Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell, sentence 15

When you cannot answer a question after a talk, it is fine to say "Good question, I'll find out" instead of making something up.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: not answer, be, say, find out, make up · To what, where: question, Good question, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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 (you, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 answer	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 answer	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fine	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 question	det
7	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 talk	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 talk	det
10	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fine	csubj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 question	punct
18	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 question	amod
19	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 find	nsubj
22	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 making	mark
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 say	advcl
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 making	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 making	compound:prt
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	can	you	a question	after a talk		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
2	is	present				fine property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		Good question			tree rules
4	find out in a quote	future	I				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	make up	gerund		something			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Pivot

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:048-spoken-language-presenting-and-show-and-tell.lesson:15.

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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