Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 6
A short message is fine for small things, but a handwritten card for a big gift shows real effort and is often kept.
Who acts: short message, handwritten card · What happens: be, handwrite, show, keep · To what, where: real effort
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 (short message, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 message | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 message | amod |
| 3 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | cop |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fine | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shows | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 shows | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 card | det |
| 12 | handwritten | handwrite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 card | amod |
| 13 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shows | nsubj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 gift | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 gift | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gift | amod |
| 17 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 card | nmod |
| 18 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fine | conj |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 effort | amod |
| 20 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shows | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kept | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 kept | aux:pass |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 kept | advmod |
| 24 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shows | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a short message | for small things; fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | handwrite | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | show | present | a handwritten card for a big gift | real effort | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent effort=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | keep | present · passive | a handwritten card for a big gift not said here | often property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
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:6.
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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