Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities, sentence 8
A kind classmate quietly explains how it works, so she feels welcome instead of silly.
Who acts: kind classmate, classmate, class · What happens: explain, work, feel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 (kind classmate, classmate, class), 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 classmate | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 classmate | amod |
| 3 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 explains | nsubj |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 explains | advmod |
| 5 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 works | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 works | nsubj |
| 8 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 explains | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feels | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 feels | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 feels | nsubj |
| 12 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 explains | conj |
| 13 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feels | xcomp |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 silly | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feels | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 explains | 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 | explain speech: assert | present | a kind classmate | quietly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | work | present | classmate | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | class | instead silly; welcome property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:8.
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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