Growing, seeing and hearing, sentence 2
A hearing aid is a small device that helps a person hear; you respect it and never touch it.
Who acts: hearing aid, small device, person, you · What happens: be, help, hear, respect, not touch · To what, where: small device, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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 (hearing aid, small device, person, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 aid | det |
| 2 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aid | compound |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 device | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 device | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 device | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 device | amod |
| 7 | device | device | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 helps | nsubj |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 device | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 helps | obj |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 respect | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 respect | nsubj |
| 15 | respect | respect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 helps | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 respect | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 touch | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 touch | advmod |
| 19 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 respect | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 touch | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 device | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a hearing aid | a small device | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | a small device | a person | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | infinitive | a person not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | respect | present | you | person | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not touch | present | you not said here | person | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing.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): R1-cc-next ×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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/2/