Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 3
Comments about someone's body or weight can make them uncomfortable, even when meant kindly.
Who acts: Comments · What happens: make, mean · To what, where: body
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 (Comments), 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 | Comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 make | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 body | case |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 body | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Comments | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 weight | cc |
| 7 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 body | conj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 meant | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 meant | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 meant | mark |
| 15 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 make | advcl |
| 16 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 15 meant | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Comments about someone's body or weight | body | uncomfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 2 | mean | participle | Comments about someone's body or weight not said here | kindly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:3.
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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