Classroom rules and homework, sentence 18
If homework always takes far too long, a parent can talk to the teacher, who may adjust it.
Who acts: homework, parent, teacher · What happens: take, talk, adjust · To what, where: Homework
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 (homework, parent, teacher), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 takes | mark |
| 2 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 takes | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | _ | 4 takes | advmod |
| 4 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 talk | advcl |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 long | advmod |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 takes | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 takes | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parent | det |
| 10 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talk | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 talk | aux |
| 12 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 teacher | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 teacher | det |
| 15 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talk | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 adjust | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 adjust | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 adjust | aux |
| 19 | adjust | adjust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 adjust | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 talk | 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 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | homework | always, long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | talk | can | a parent | to the teacher | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | adjust | may | the teacher | Homework | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:18.
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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