Reading faces and voices, sentence 14
People sometimes cry when they are very happy, proud or relieved.
Who acts: People · What happens: cry, be
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 (People), 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 | 3 cry | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 cry | advmod |
| 3 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 happy | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cry | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 proud | punct |
| 10 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happy | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 relieved | cc |
| 12 | relieved | relieved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happy | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | People | sometimes property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | People | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | People not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | People not said here | tree rules |
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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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