Safe toys for you and little ones, sentence 21
Ask a parent before giving away old toys to younger children, a charity shop or a donation box.
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, give away · To what, where: parent, old toys, younger children
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys for you and little ones» 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 parent | det |
| 3 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 giving | mark |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Ask | advcl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 giving | compound:prt |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 toys | amod |
| 8 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 giving | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 10 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 children | amod |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 giving | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shop | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shop | det |
| 14 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shop | compound |
| 15 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giving | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 box | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 box | det |
| 18 | donation | donation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 box | compound |
| 19 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shop | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | a parent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give away | gerund | you not said here | old toys | younger children | a charity shop or a donation box obl | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Theme to child=Recipient |
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:241-safe-toys.lesson:21.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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