Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 2
The best compliments are about things people choose or do: a drawing, a goal, their kindness, their effort, a tasty meal.
Who acts: best compliments, people · What happens: be, choose, do · To what, where: things
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 (best compliments, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 compliments | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 compliments | amod |
| 3 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 things | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 choose | nsubj |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 choose | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 drawing | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drawing | det |
| 13 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 things | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 goal | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 goal | det |
| 16 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kindness | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 effort | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 effort | nmod:poss |
| 22 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 meal | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 meal | det |
| 25 | tasty | tasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 meal | amod |
| 26 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 things | 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 | the best compliments | about things | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | present | people | things not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | present | people not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:2.
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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