Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 12
In a museum you do not touch exhibits unless signs say you can, because they can be old and fragile.
Who acts: you, signs, exhibits · What happens: not touch, say, be · To what, where: exhibits, museum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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, signs, exhibits), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 museum | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 museum | det |
| 3 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touch | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 touch | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 touch | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 touch | advmod |
| 7 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | exhibits | exhibit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 touch | obj |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 11 say | mark |
| 10 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 touch | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 can | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 old | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 old | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 old | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 old | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 old | cop |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 touch | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fragile | cc |
| 21 | fragile | fragile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 old | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | present · do-support | you | exhibits | a museum | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exhibit=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | signs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | can | exhibits = exhibit | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | exhibits = exhibit not said here | 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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.lesson:12.
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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