White lies and kind silence, sentence 20
Some people find their age or weight private, and it is polite not to press.
Who acts: people · What happens: find, be, not press · To what, where: age
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 (people), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 age | nmod:poss |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 weight | cc |
| 7 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 age | conj |
| 8 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 polite | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 polite | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 polite | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 polite | cop |
| 13 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 press | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 press | mark |
| 16 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 polite | csubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | some people | people's age or weight | private property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | some people not said here | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not press | to-infinitive | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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:20.
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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