Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing, sentence 1
The listener has to finish the picture: if a part is missing, the person's mind is missing a part too.
Who acts: listener, part, mind, person · What happens: have, finish, be, miss, mind · To what, where: picture, part
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: stupidity and madness and rudeness and swearing» 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 (listener, part, mind, person), 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 listener | det |
| 2 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 finish | mark |
| 5 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 picture | det |
| 7 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finish | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 missing | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 missing | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 missing | cop |
| 13 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 missing | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 person | case |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 missing | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 missing | aux |
| 20 | missing | miss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 missing | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 missing | obj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 missing | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the listener | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | the listener not said here | the picture | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality picture=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | a part | missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | miss | present · progressive | the person's mind | a part | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer part=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | mind | the person | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:037-bats-and-gosh.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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