Reading faces and voices, sentence 21
Missing the signs that someone is angry or upset can turn a small joke into a real fight.
Who acts: someone, Missing · What happens: miss, be, turn · To what, where: signs, small joke, real fight
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 (someone, Missing), 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 | Missing | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 turn | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 signs | det |
| 3 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Missing | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 angry | mark |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 signs | acl:relcl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 upset | cc |
| 9 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 angry | conj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | aux |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 joke | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joke | amod |
| 14 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 fight | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fight | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fight | amod |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | gerund | the signs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present | someone | the signs not said here | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | someone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | turn | can | Missing | a small joke | a real fight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent joke=Theme into fight=Trajectory |
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:21.
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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