Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 3
Saying «I don't understand» is honest and brave, and «Thanks, but I can't come» is a polite no that needs no made-up excuse.
Who acts: I, Saying, polite no · What happens: say, not understand, be, not come, need, make · To what, where: polite no, made excuse · 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 (I, Saying, polite no), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 honest | csubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 understand | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 understand | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 understand | advmod |
| 6 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 understand | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 honest | cop |
| 9 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brave | cc |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 honest | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 no | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 no | cc |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 15 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 come | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 come | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 19 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 come | advmod |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 no | csubj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 no | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 no | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 no | det |
| 25 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 no | amod |
| 26 | no | no | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 honest | conj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 needs | nsubj |
| 28 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 no | acl:relcl |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 excuse | det |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 excuse | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 32 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | compound |
| 33 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 needs | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 honest | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | not understand in a quote | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Saying | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Saying not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not come in a quote | can | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | Saying not said here | a polite no | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | need | present | a polite no | no made excuse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot excuse=Theme | ||||
| 8 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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