Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 9
After a compliment, say thank you and leave it there, because boasting spoils the good feeling.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, thank, leave, boast, spoil · To what, where: you, compliment, good feeling · 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 (you), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 compliment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 compliment | det |
| 3 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 compliment | punct |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 thank | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leave | cc |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thank | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 leave | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boasting | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 boasting | mark |
| 14 | boasting | boast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thank | advcl |
| 15 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 boasting | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feeling | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feeling | amod |
| 18 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoils | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | after a compliment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | compliment | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | boast speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | spoil | present | the good feeling | 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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:9.
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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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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