Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 10
Pretending to understand means you miss the help you need.
Who acts: Pretending, you · What happens: pretend, understand, mean, miss, need · To what, where: help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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 (Pretending, 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 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 understand | mark |
| 3 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 miss | nsubj |
| 6 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 help | det |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 miss | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 help | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | Pretending | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | miss | present | you | the help | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | need | present | you | the help not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:10.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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