Reading faces and voices, sentence 12
Nervousness can make the voice shake and the hands fidget or tremble.
Who acts: Nervousness, voice, hands · What happens: make, shake, fidget, tremble
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» 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 (Nervousness, voice, hands), 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 | Nervousness | nervousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shake | nsubj |
| 6 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fidget | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hands | det |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fidget | nsubj |
| 10 | fidget | fidget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shake | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 tremble | cc |
| 12 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fidget | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Nervousness | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shake | infinitive | the voice | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fidget | infinitive | the hands | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tremble | infinitive | the hands not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:12.
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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