Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters, sentence 10
If a lesson is too easy, you can politely ask the teacher for a harder challenge, because teachers often have extension work.
Who acts: lesson, you, teachers · What happens: be, ask, have · To what, where: teacher, extension work
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sadness, jealousy, boredom, pride and brothers and sisters» 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 (lesson, you, teachers), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 easy | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lesson | det |
| 3 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 easy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 easy | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 easy | advmod |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ask | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 easy | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | aux |
| 10 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 11 ask | advmod |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 teacher | det |
| 13 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 challenge | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 challenge | det |
| 16 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 challenge | amod |
| 17 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 20 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | advcl |
| 23 | extension | extension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 work | compound |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | 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 condition, not said to happen | present | a lesson | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | can | you | the teacher | for a harder challenge; politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | present | teachers | extension work | often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient |
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:213-sad-jealous-bored-and-proud.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×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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