Anger and fears, sentence 7
People listen to a calm, clear reason much more than to a shout.
Who acts: People · What happens: listen
This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 listen | nsubj |
| 2 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 reason | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reason | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reason | punct |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reason | amod |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listen | obl |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 listen | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 shout | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shout | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 shout | det |
| 14 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listen | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | People | to a calm clear reason; than a shout | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reason=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:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:7.
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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