Chores and broken things, sentence 17
Breaking a mirror does not bring seven years of bad luck; that is a superstition, and the only danger is the glass.
Who acts: Breaking, that, only danger · What happens: break, not bring, be · To what, where: mirror, superstition, glass
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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 (Breaking, that, only danger), 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 | Breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bring | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mirror | det |
| 3 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Breaking | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bring | advmod |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 luck | case |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 luck | amod |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 years | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 superstition | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 superstition | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 superstition | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 superstition | det |
| 16 | superstition | superstition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 glass | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 glass | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 danger | det |
| 20 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 danger | amod |
| 21 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glass | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 glass | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 glass | det |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 superstition | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | a mirror | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirror=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not bring | present · do-support | Breaking | year | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | a superstition and the glass | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the only danger | the glass | tree rules |
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:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:17.
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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