What to do if you are lost, sentence 17
A whistle can be heard much farther than a shout, and it does not wear out your voice.
Who acts: whistle · What happens: hear, not wear out · To what, where: whistle, voice
This is a sentence of the lesson «What to do if you are lost» 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 (whistle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 whistle | det |
| 2 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | aux:pass |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 farther | advmod |
| 7 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 heard | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 shout | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shout | det |
| 10 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 farther | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wear | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wear | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wear | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 wear | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wear | advmod |
| 16 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 wear | compound:prt |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wear | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | can · passive | a whistle | far property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not wear out | present · do-support | whistle | your voice | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Source |
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:017-if-you-are-lost.lesson:17.
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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