Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 16
Asking someone about their boyfriend or girlfriend as a dare is rude; people's private lives are not a joke.
Who acts: Asking, private lives · What happens: ask, be, not be · To what, where: someone, joke
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (Asking, private lives), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 rude | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Asking | obj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 boyfriend | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boyfriend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boyfriend | boyfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 girlfriend | cc |
| 7 | girlfriend | girlfriend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boyfriend | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 dare | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dare | det |
| 10 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rude | cop |
| 12 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 joke | punct |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lives | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 people | case |
| 16 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lives | amod |
| 17 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 joke | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 joke | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 joke | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 joke | det |
| 21 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rude | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rude | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | someone | about secrets's boyfriend or girlfriend; as a dare | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient about boyfriend=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Asking | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | people's private lives | a joke | tree rules |
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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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