Borrowing without asking, sentence 12
Asking first costs a few seconds; not asking can cost someone else a lot.
Who acts: Asking · What happens: ask, cost, not ask · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing without asking» 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), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 costs | csubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Asking | advmod |
| 3 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 seconds | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 seconds | amod |
| 6 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 costs | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 cost | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 asking | advmod |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cost | csubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cost | aux |
| 11 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 costs | parataxis |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 cost | obj |
| 13 | else | else | ADV | _ | 12 someone | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lot | det |
| 15 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cost | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 costs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cost | present | Asking | second | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cost | can | asking | someone | a lot obl:unmarked | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme someone=Value |
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:339-borrowing-without-asking.lesson:12.
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 ×2. 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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