Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 16
Borrowing without asking is taking, and breaking the thing makes it worse.
Who acts: breaking · What happens: borrow, ask, take, break, make · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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 (breaking), 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 | Borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 taking | nsubj |
| 2 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 3 asking | mark |
| 3 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Borrowing | advcl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | aux |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 makes | cc |
| 8 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 makes | csubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breaking | obj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 taking | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | gerund | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | take | present · progressive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | break | gerund | the thing | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient | |||||
| 5 | make | present | breaking | thing | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.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. 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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