Younger children, losing and practising, sentence 5
Little children are still learning to lose, so you comfort them and play again.
Who acts: Little children, you · What happens: learn, lose, comfort, play · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of the lesson «Younger children, losing and practising» 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 (Little children, 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learning | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learning | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 learning | advmod |
| 5 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lose | mark |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 learning | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 comfort | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 comfort | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 comfort | nsubj |
| 11 | comfort | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learning | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 comfort | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 play | cc |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 comfort | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 play | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learning | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present · progressive | Little children | still | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | to-infinitive | Little children not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | comfort | present | you | children = child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | you not said here | again | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:251-younger-children-losing-and-practising.lesson:5.
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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