Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 5
Teachers like questions, and asking is the fastest way to learn, even if you fear the question is silly.
Who acts: Teachers, you, question · What happens: like, ask, be, learn, fear · To what, where: questions, fastest way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Teachers, you, 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 | Teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 like | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 like | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 way | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 way | cc |
| 6 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Ger | 10 way | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 way | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 9 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 way | amod |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Teachers | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 learn | mark |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fear | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 fear | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 fear | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fear | nsubj |
| 17 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 learn | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 question | det |
| 19 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 silly | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 silly | cop |
| 21 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fear | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teachers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | Teachers and the fastest way | questions | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot question=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the fastest way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | Teachers and the fastest way not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fear a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | present | the question | silly property | tree rules |
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: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): R5-strong ×3. 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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