Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 0
Asking a question is the fastest way to learn, and teachers like questions; a question that is not about the lesson can wait until break or the end of the lesson.
Who acts: Asking, teachers, question · What happens: ask, be, learn, like, wait · To what, where: question, fastest way, questions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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 (Asking, teachers, question), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 way | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 learn | mark |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 like | cc |
| 12 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | conj |
| 14 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 like | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 question | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 question | det |
| 17 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wait | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 about | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 about | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 about | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 question | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lesson | det |
| 23 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 about | obl |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 wait | aux |
| 25 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | parataxis |
| 26 | until | until | ADP | _ | 27 break | case |
| 27 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wait | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 end | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 end | det |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 break | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 lesson | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lesson | det |
| 33 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | 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 | gerund | a question | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Asking | the fastest way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | like | present | teachers | questions | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot question=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wait | can | a question | until break or the end of the lesson | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:0.
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): R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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