Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 6
You let a parent answer, or ignore, calls and messages from unknown numbers, because they could be scammers.
Who acts: You, parent, messages · What happens: let, answer, ignore, be · To what, where: calls, unknown numbers, scammers
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, parent, messages), 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 | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 parent | det |
| 4 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ignore | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 ignore | cc |
| 8 | ignore | ignore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answer | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 calls | punct |
| 10 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ignore | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 messages | cc |
| 12 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 calls | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 numbers | case |
| 14 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 numbers | amod |
| 15 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 calls | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scammers | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 scammers | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 scammers | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 scammers | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 scammers | cop |
| 21 | scammers | scammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 let | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | a parent | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ignore | infinitive | a parent not said here | calls and messages | unknown numbers | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | could | messages = message | scammers | 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:6.
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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