Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 1
You can belong to a group without being mean to anyone, and you can say "No thanks" and walk away when someone offers a cigarette, a vape or alcohol, because they harm a growing body.
Who acts: You, someone, cigarette · What happens: belong, be, say, walk away, offer, harm · To what, where: thanks, cigarette, growing body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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, someone, cigarette), 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 belong | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 belong | aux |
| 3 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 group | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belong | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 mean | mark |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 mean | cop |
| 9 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 belong | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 mean | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 say | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | aux |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 belong | conj |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanks | punct |
| 18 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 thanks | det |
| 19 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 say | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanks | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 walk | cc |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 say | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 walk | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 offers | advmod |
| 25 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 offers | nsubj |
| 26 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 walk | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cigarette | det |
| 28 | cigarette | cigarette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 offers | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 vape | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 vape | det |
| 31 | vape | vape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cigarette | conj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 alcohol | cc |
| 33 | alcohol | alcohol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cigarette | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 harm | punct |
| 35 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 harm | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 harm | nsubj |
| 37 | harm | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 walk | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 body | det |
| 39 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 body | amod |
| 40 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 harm | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=suggest, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | can | You | to a group | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | You not said here | to anyone; mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | can | you | no thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic | ||||
| 4 | walk away | infinitive | you not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | offer | present | someone | a cigarette and a vape or alcohol | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent cigarette=Theme | ||||
| 6 | harm | present | cigarette | a growing body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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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