White lies and kind silence, sentence 9
You can thank someone warmly for their thought and effort even when you do not like the gift.
Who acts: You, secrets · What happens: thank, not like, think · To what, where: someone, gift
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, secrets), 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 thank | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 thank | aux |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 3 thank | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 thought | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nmod:poss |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 effort | cc |
| 10 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | conj |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 effort | advmod |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 like | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 like | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 like | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thank | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gift | det |
| 18 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 like | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | can | You | someone | for secrets's thought and effort; warmly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme for thought=Attribute | |||
| 2 | not like | present · do-support | you | the gift | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gift=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think | secrets = secret | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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:9.
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): no change. 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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