Your uh-oh feeling, sentence 24
"You and Sophie sitting in a tree" is a teasing playground rhyme that says two children are a couple; you can ask the teaser to stop and tell an adult if it goes on.
Who acts: You, teasing playground rhyme, two children, teaser, adult, couple · What happens: sit, tease, be, say, ask, stop · To what, where: tree, teasing playground rhyme, couple, teaser · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Your uh-oh feeling» 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 (You, teasing playground rhyme, two children, teaser), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Sophie | cc |
| 4 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 You | conj |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 rhyme | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rhyme | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rhyme | det |
| 12 | teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 rhyme | amod |
| 13 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rhyme | compound |
| 14 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rhyme | acl:relcl |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 children | nummod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 couple | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 couple | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 couple | det |
| 21 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | ccomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 ask | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ask | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 ask | aux |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 says | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 teaser | det |
| 27 | teaser | teaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ask | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 stop | mark |
| 29 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ask | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tell | cc |
| 31 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 stop | conj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 adult | det |
| 33 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tell | obj |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 goes | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 goes | nsubj |
| 36 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 tell | ccomp |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 goes | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rhyme | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit in a quote | gerund | You | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | tease | gerund | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a teasing playground rhyme | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | a teasing playground rhyme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | two children | a couple | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | can | you | the teaser | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent teaser=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the teaser not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | go on a condition, not said to happen | present | couple | vn function-105.2.1 «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:019-uh-oh-feeling.lesson:24.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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