Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 20
When you wonder why something happens, like why the sky is blue, ask questions and look it up in books or with an adult; curiosity helps you learn.
Who acts: you, something, sky, curiosity · What happens: wonder, happen, be, ask, look up, help · To what, where: questions, sky, books · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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 (you, something, sky, curiosity), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 wonder | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | advcl |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 happens | advmod |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 happens | nsubj |
| 6 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 happens | punct |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 blue | mark |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 blue | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blue | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 blue | cop |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happens | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 look | cc |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 look | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 books | case |
| 22 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 adult | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 adult | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 adult | det |
| 26 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 books | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 helps | punct |
| 28 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 helps | nsubj |
| 29 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 learn | nsubj |
| 31 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 helps | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | happen | present | something | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the sky | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | look up | infinitive | you not said here | sky | books or a adult | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | |||
| 6 | help | present | curiosity | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | learn | infinitive | you | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:20.
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): R6-punct-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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