Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 2
Looking out for each other means noticing too: if an elderly neighbour who lives alone has not been seen for a while, telling a grown-up can bring help to someone who has fallen.
Who acts: Looking, elderly neighbour, telling · What happens: look out, means, notice, live, not see, tell · To what, where: elderly neighbour, grown up, help, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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 (Looking, elderly neighbour, 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | csubj |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | compound:prt |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 other | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | noticing | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 noticing | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 seen | mark |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 neighbour | det |
| 12 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 neighbour | amod |
| 13 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lives | nsubj |
| 15 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 neighbour | acl:relcl |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 lives | advmod |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 seen | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 bring | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 while | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 while | det |
| 23 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 telling | punct |
| 25 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 bring | csubj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 up | det |
| 27 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 up | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 up | punct |
| 29 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 telling | obj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 bring | aux |
| 31 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | ccomp |
| 32 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bring | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 someone | case |
| 34 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 bring | obl |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 fallen | nsubj |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 fallen | aux |
| 37 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 someone | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | gerund | for each other | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for other=Theme | |||||
| 2 | means | present | Looking | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | notice | gerund | Looking not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | live | present | a elderly neighbour | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not see a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect · passive | a elderly neighbour | while | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | bring | can | telling | help | someone | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent help=Theme to someone=Destination | |||
| 9 | fall | present · perfect | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:2.
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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