Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 16
A message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts.
Who acts: message, handwritten card · What happens: be, handwrite, mean · To what, where: more
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 (message, handwritten card), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 message | det |
| 2 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fine | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 means | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 card | det |
| 11 | handwritten | handwrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 card | amod |
| 12 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 means | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 gifts | case |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gifts | amod |
| 17 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 more | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a message | for small things; fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | handwrite | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | a handwritten card | more | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
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:16.
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): no change. 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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