Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 16
An email or message is fine to thank someone for small things, but a handwritten card means more for big gifts.
Who acts: email, handwritten card · What happens: be, thank, mean · To what, where: someone, more
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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 (email, handwritten card), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 email | det |
| 2 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fine | nsubj | ||
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 message | cc |
| 4 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 email | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | cop |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 thank | mark |
| 8 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fine | advcl |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 thank | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thank | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 means | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 means | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 card | det |
| 16 | handwritten | handwritten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 card | amod |
| 17 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | nsubj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | conj |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 means | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 gifts | case |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gifts | amod |
| 22 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 more | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a email or message | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | to-infinitive | a email or message not said here | someone | for small things | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme for thing=Attribute | |||
| 3 | mean | present | a handwritten card | more | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:16.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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