Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 12

Owning up early is easier than later: a lost jacket is easier to find on the first day, and a library book is easier to replace before the fines grow.

Who acts: Owning, lost jacket, library book, fines · What happens: own up, be, lose, find, replace, grow

This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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 (Owning, lost jacket, library book, fines), 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	Owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 easier	csubj
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Owning	compound:prt
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Owning	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 easier	cop
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 later	case
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 easier	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 jacket	det
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 jacket	amod
11	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 easier	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 easier	cop
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 easier	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 easier	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 day	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 day	det
18	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 day	amod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 easier	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 easier	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 book	det
23	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 book	compound
24	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 easier	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 easier	cop
26	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 easier	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 replace	mark
28	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 easier	xcomp
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 grow	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fines	det
31	fines	fine	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grow	nsubj
32	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 replace	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 easier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	own up	gerund			early property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is	present	Owning		easy property	tree rules
3	lose	participle				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	a lost jacket		easy property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	a lost jacket not said here	day		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	a library book		easy property	tree rules
7	replace	to-infinitive	a library book not said here			vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
8	grow	present	the fines			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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