White lies and kind silence, sentence 2
Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you like it.
Who acts: Grandma, you · What happens: knit, not like, ask, like · To what, where: jumper, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» 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 (Grandma, you), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knits | dep |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 knits | punct |
| 3 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knits | nsubj |
| 4 | knits | knit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 knits | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 jumper | det |
| 7 | jumper | jumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knits | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 like | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 like | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 like | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 jumper | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asks | cc |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knits | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 like | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 asks | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 like | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knit | present | Grandma | a jumper | you | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary jumper=Product | |||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | you | a jumper not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jumper=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | Grandma not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | jumper | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:2.
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, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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