Safe toys and fair board games, sentence 12
Pretend play helps little children learn about the world, so let them lead the story and join in.
Who acts: Pretend play, little children, toys · What happens: help, learn, let, lead, join in · To what, where: toys, story
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe toys and fair board games» 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 (Pretend play, little children, toys), 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 | Pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 play | amod |
| 2 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helps | xcomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 let | advmod |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 helps | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lead | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 join | cc |
| 18 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 lead | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 join | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Pretend play | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | little children | about the world | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about world=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | toys = toy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lead | infinitive | toys = toy not said here | the story | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 5 | join in | infinitive | toys = toy not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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:302-toys-and-board-games.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, R7-rel-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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