Honest work at school, sentence 11
Helping a friend by explaining is better than letting them copy.
Who acts: Helping, answers · What happens: help, explain, be, let, copy · To what, where: friend, answers
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» 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 (Helping, answers), 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 | Helping | help | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 better | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Helping | obj |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 explaining | mark |
| 5 | explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Helping | advcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | cop |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 letting | mark |
| 9 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 better | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 letting | obj |
| 11 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 letting | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | gerund | a friend | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Helping | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | gerund | Helping not said here | answers = answer | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | copy | infinitive | answers = answer not said here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: 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:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework.lesson:11.
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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