Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 13

When you wonder why something happens, like why the sky is blue, you ask questions and look it up in books or with an adult.

Who acts: you, something, sky · What happens: wonder, happen, be, ask, look up · To what, where: questions, sky, books · 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, something, sky), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 wonder	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wonder	nsubj
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ask	advcl
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 happens	advmod
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 happens	nsubj
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wonder	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 happens	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 blue	mark
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 blue	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blue	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 blue	cop
13	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 happens	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wonder	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 ask	nsubj
16	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ask	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 look	cc
19	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ask	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 look	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 look	compound:prt
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 books	case
23	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	obl
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 adult	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 adult	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 adult	det
27	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 books	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	you				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	present	something				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the sky			blue property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	present	you	questions			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
5	look up	present	you not said here	sky	books or a adult		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

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:13.

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): R8-pos-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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