Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 13
A kind, specific compliment can help a shy person feel more confident.
Who acts: kind specific compliment, shy person · What happens: help, feel · To what, where: shy person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 (kind specific compliment, shy person), 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 | 5 compliment | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 compliment | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 compliment | punct |
| 4 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 compliment | amod |
| 5 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | aux |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 9 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 person | amod |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | obj |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 confident | advmod |
| 13 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feel | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | a kind specific compliment | a shy person | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | a shy person not said here | confident property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.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): R5-strong ×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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