Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 11
Starting at a new school is scary, and a friendly face helps a lot.
Who acts: Starting, friendly face · What happens: start, be, help · To what, where: new school, lot
This is a sentence of the lesson «Greeting neighbours and new people» 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 (Starting, friendly face), 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 | Starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 scary | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 school | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 school | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 school | amod |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Starting | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scary | cop |
| 7 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 helps | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 helps | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helps | nsubj |
| 13 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scary | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lot | det |
| 15 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helps | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 scary | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | gerund | a new school | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Starting | scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | present | a friendly face | a lot | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Beneficiary |
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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:11.
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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