White lies and kind silence, sentence 3
You can say «Thank you, it's so cosy, and you remembered my favourite colour!» Every word is true, and Grandma feels thanked for her effort.
Who acts: You, jumper, word, Grandma · What happens: say, thank, be, remember, feel · To what, where: you, favourite colour · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, jumper, word, Grandma), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 5 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 Thank | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cosy | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cosy | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cosy | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 cosy | advmod |
| 11 | cosy | cosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remembered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 remembered | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 remembered | nsubj |
| 15 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 colour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 colour | amod |
| 18 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remembered | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 remembered | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 21 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 true | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 true | cop |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 remembered | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 feels | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 feels | cc |
| 27 | Grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feels | nsubj |
| 28 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 true | conj |
| 29 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 feels | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 effort | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 effort | nmod:poss |
| 32 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thanked | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | can | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | jumper | cosy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remember in a quote | past | you | my favourite colour | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent colour=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | present | every word | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | feel | present | Grandma | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | thank speech: thank | participle | Grandma not said here | for Grandma's effort | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for effort=Attribute |
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:3.
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): 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.
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