Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 14
Learning another language is hard, and many people speak two or more, so never copy or tease an accent.
Who acts: Learning, many people · What happens: learn, be, speak, not copy, tease · To what, where: language, two, accent · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Learning, many people), 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 | Learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hard | csubj |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 language | det |
| 3 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Learning | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | cop |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 speak | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 speak | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 speak | nsubj |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | conj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 speak | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 two | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 copy | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 copy | advmod |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 copy | advmod |
| 17 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 hard | parataxis |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 tease | cc |
| 19 | tease | tease | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 copy | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 accent | det |
| 21 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tease | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | another language | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Learning | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | many people | two | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not copy | infinitive | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | tease | infinitive | a accent | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient |
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:14.
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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