Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark, sentence 9
You can disagree with an adult if you are polite and explain your reason calmly.
Who acts: You · What happens: disagree, be, explain · To what, where: reason
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing up for yourself, nightmares and the dark» of the everyday 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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 disagree | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 disagree | aux |
| 3 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 adult | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 adult | det |
| 6 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disagree | obl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 polite | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 polite | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 polite | cop |
| 10 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 disagree | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 explain | cc |
| 12 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 polite | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 reason | nmod:poss |
| 14 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 explain | obj |
| 15 | calmly | calmly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 explain | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disagree | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disagree | can | You | with a adult | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with adult=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | your reason | calmly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
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:everyday:100-standing-up-nightmares-and-the-dark.lesson:9.
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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