Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 13
You never compare the prices of presents, and a small or homemade present is fine.
Who acts: You, small present · What happens: not compare, be · To what, where: prices
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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, small present), 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 compare | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 compare | advmod |
| 3 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prices | det |
| 5 | prices | price | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 compare | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 presents | case |
| 7 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prices | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fine | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fine | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 present | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 present | amod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 homemade | cc |
| 13 | homemade | homemade | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 small | conj |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fine | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fine | cop |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 compare | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not compare | present | You | the prices of presents | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a small present | fine property | tree rules |
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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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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