Music practice and ball games, sentence 12
You ask before touching instruments in a music shop, because they are expensive and belong to the shop.
Who acts: You, neighbours · What happens: ask, touch, be, belong · To what, where: instruments, music shop
This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» 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, neighbours), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 touching | mark |
| 4 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ask | advcl |
| 5 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 touching | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 8 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shop | compound |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touching | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 expensive | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 expensive | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 expensive | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 expensive | cop |
| 14 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ask | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 belong | cc |
| 16 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 expensive | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shop | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shop | det |
| 19 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 belong | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | You | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | You not said here | instruments | a music shop | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme instrument=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | neighbours = neighbour | expensive property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | belong | present | neighbours = neighbour not said here | to the shop | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:12.
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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