Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate, sentence 4
A good reader asks: who is speaking, and are they being kind, polite, joking, or hiding something?
Who acts: good reader, words · What happens: ask, speak, be, joke, hide · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs and religion and fate» 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 (good reader, words), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 reader | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reader | amod |
| 3 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 speaking | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 speaking | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 speaking | aux |
| 8 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 asks | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 speaking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kind | cc |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 kind | aux |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kind | nsubj |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 kind | cop |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 speaking | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 polite | punct |
| 16 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kind | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 joking | punct |
| 18 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 kind | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hiding | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 hiding | cc |
| 21 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 kind | conj |
| 22 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 hiding | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a good reader | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present · progressive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present · progressive | words = word | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | words = word not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | joke speech: other | gerund | words = word not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hide | gerund | words = word not said here | something | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
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:031-drinking-drugs-religion-fate.lesson:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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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