Greeting neighbours and new people, sentence 7
People like to hear their own name, so it is worth learning your neighbours' names.
Who acts: People, learning, neighbours · What happens: like, hear, be, learn, name · To what, where: own name, names
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 (People, learning, neighbours), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 like | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hear | mark |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 like | xcomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 name | amod |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worth | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 worth | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 worth | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 worth | cop |
| 12 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 like | parataxis |
| 13 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 worth | csubj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 names | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 neighbours | case |
| 17 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 learning | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | People | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | People not said here | People's own name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | learning | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | learn | gerund | your neighbours's names | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | |||||
| 5 | name | People | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | name | your neighbours | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:7.
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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