Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 22
Things you had to steal are hard to enjoy, because you must hide them.
Who acts: you, Things · What happens: have, steal, be, enjoy, hide · To what, where: Things, absolution
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 (you, Things), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Things | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 steal | mark |
| 5 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hard | cop |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 enjoy | mark |
| 9 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hard | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hide | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 hide | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hide | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hide | aux |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enjoy | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hide | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | you | Things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | steal | to-infinitive | Things not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Things | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | to-infinitive | Things not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | hide | must | you | absolution | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:22.
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): no change. 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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