Chores and broken things, sentence 22
Telling an adult about something broken means it can be cleaned up safely.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, break, mean, clean up · To what, where: adult · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Telling), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 means | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 something | case |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 adult | nmod |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 something | acl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cleaned | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cleaned | aux:pass |
| 11 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 cleaned | compound:prt |
| 13 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 11 cleaned | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about something=Topic | |||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | Telling | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | clean up | can · passive | adult | safely property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:22.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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