Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 11
He also learned how habits change: slowly, with fewer silly friends and more to do than to be idle.
Who acts: dog, habits · What happens: learn, change, do, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 (dog, habits), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 learned | advmod |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 change | advmod |
| 5 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 change | nsubj |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | ccomp |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 slowly | punct |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 change | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 11 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 friends | amod |
| 12 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 friends | amod |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learned | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 friends | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 more | acl |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 idle | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 idle | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 idle | cop |
| 21 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 more | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | dog | with fewer silly friends | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | change | present | habits | slowly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | idle property | tree rules |
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:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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