Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 21
Confession can lift guilt, but it does not replace giving back what you took.
Who acts: Confession, you · What happens: lift, not replace, give back, take · To what, where: guilt
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 (Confession, you), 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 | Confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lift | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 lift | aux |
| 3 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lift | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replace | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 replace | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replace | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replace | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 replace | advmod |
| 10 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lift | conj |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 replace | xcomp |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 giving | advmod |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 giving | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lift | 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 | lift | can | Confession | guilt | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not replace | present · do-support | confession | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give back | gerund | confession not said here | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:21.
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): 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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