Classroom rules and homework, sentence 1
When there is a problem, a calm word works best: ask a noisy classmate kindly to be quiet, and if you were blamed for something you did not do, explain politely later, in private.
Who acts: problem, calm word, noisy classmate, you · What happens: be, work, ask, blame, not do, explain · To what, where: noisy classmate, you, private
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» 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 (problem, calm word, noisy classmate, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 is | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 works | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 problem | det |
| 5 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 8 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | nsubj |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 works | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 works | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 classmate | det |
| 15 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 classmate | amod |
| 16 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 17 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 13 ask | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 quiet | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 quiet | cop |
| 20 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ask | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 explain | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 blamed | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 blamed | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 blamed | aux:pass |
| 26 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 explain | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 something | case |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 blamed | obl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 do | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 do | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 do | advmod |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 something | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 explain | punct |
| 34 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 works | conj |
| 35 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 36 later | advmod |
| 36 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 explain | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 private | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 private | case |
| 39 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 explain | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a problem | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | present | a calm word | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | a noisy classmate | kindly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent classmate=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | a noisy classmate not said here | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | blame a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | you | for something | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for something=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | not do | past · do-support | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | explain speech: assert | infinitive | a calm word not said here | private | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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