Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 15
Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind.
Who acts: Speaking, someone · What happens: speak, be, mock, accent · To what, where: one language, skill, accent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» 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 (Speaking, someone), 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 | Speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 skill | csubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 one | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 2 more | fixed |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 language | nummod |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Speaking | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 skill | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skill | det |
| 8 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unkind | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 skill | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mocking | cc |
| 11 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 unkind | conj |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 accent | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 14 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mocking | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 unkind | cop |
| 16 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 skill | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | one language | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Speaking | a skill | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mock | gerund | someone's accent | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | unkind property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | accent | someone | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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