Remembering details, sentence 13
Memories fade quickly, so it helps to tell someone or write them down soon.
Who acts: Memories, Memory · What happens: fade, help, tell, write down · To what, where: Memory, someone, details · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» 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 (Memories, Memory), 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 | Memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fade | nsubj |
| 2 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 fade | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 helps | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 helps | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 helps | expl |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fade | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helps | xcomp |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 write | cc |
| 12 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 write | obj |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 write | compound:prt |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 write | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fade | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | present | Memories | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Memory | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Memory not said here | someone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | write down | infinitive | Memory not said here | details = detail | soon property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:018-remembering-details.lesson:13.
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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