Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour, sentence 13
"High-spirited" means noisy and unruly (not keeping to the rules).
Who acts: High spirited · What happens: mean, not keep
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family and children's behaviour» of the euphemisms 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 (High spirited), 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 | _ | 4 spirited | punct |
| 2 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spirited | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 High | punct |
| 4 | spirited | spirited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 spirited | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 unruly | cc |
| 9 | unruly | unruly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 noisy | conj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeping | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 keeping | advmod |
| 12 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 rules | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rules | det |
| 15 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keeping | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 keeping | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | 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 | mean | present | High spirited | noisy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not keep | gerund | to the rules | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:euphemisms:014-family-and-behaviour.lesson:13.
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 ×1, 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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