Responsibility, independence and curiosity, sentence 12

Good questions can be answered by looking in books or asking an adult, and trying to find the answer yourself makes you a better learner.

What happens: answer, look, ask, try, find, make · To what, where: Good questions, adult, answer, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» 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: 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	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 questions	amod
2	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 answered	nsubj:pass
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	aux:pass
5	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 looking	mark
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answered	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 books	case
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looking	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 asking	cc
11	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 looking	conj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asking	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trying	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trying	cc
16	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asking	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 trying	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
21	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 answer	nmod:unmarked
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 makes	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 learner	det
25	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 learner	amod
26	learner	learner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 makes	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	can · passive	Good questions			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality
2	look	gerund			in books	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in book=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund		a adult		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	try	gerund				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	the answer yourself			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Topic
6	make	present	you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

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:101-responsibility-independence-curiosity.lesson:12.

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. 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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