The library and books, sentence 6
If you need a library book for longer, you can ask to renew it, which means borrowing it again for more time.
Who acts: you · What happens: need, ask, renew, mean, borrow · To what, where: library book, book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The library and books» 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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 need | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 5 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | compound |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 longer | case |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 need | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 renew | mark |
| 14 | renew | renew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | xcomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 renew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | advcl:relcl |
| 19 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 means | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 borrowing | obj |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 borrowing | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 borrowing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a library book | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | can | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | renew not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | book | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | borrow | gerund | book | again; time | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:259-library-and-books.lesson:6.
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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