Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 14
When you receive a gift, you say thank you and maybe write a card, to show you value the giver's kindness.
Who acts: you · What happens: receive, say, thank, write, show, value · To what, where: gift, you, card, kindness · 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), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 receive | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 receive | nsubj |
| 3 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gift | det |
| 5 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 receive | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 receive | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 thank | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 write | cc |
| 12 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 13 write | advmod |
| 13 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thank | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 card | det |
| 15 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 write | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 show | mark |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 write | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 value | nsubj |
| 20 | value | value | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 show | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 giver | det |
| 22 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 giver | case |
| 24 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 value | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present | you | a gift | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 4 | write | infinitive | a card | maybe property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | value | infinitive | you | the giver's kindness | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kindness=Stimulus |
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:14.
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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