Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 3
Silly knock-knock jokes with a little brother build friendship and help him learn words.
Who acts: Silly knock jokes, test · What happens: build, help, learn · To what, where: friendship, test, words
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 (Silly knock jokes, test), 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 | Silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jokes | amod |
| 2 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knock | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 knock | punct |
| 4 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jokes | compound |
| 5 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 build | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jokes | nmod |
| 10 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 build | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 help | cc |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 build | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | xcomp |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 learn | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Silly knock jokes with a little brother | friendship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Silly knock jokes with a little brother not said here | test | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | test not said here | words | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
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: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): 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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