Accidents told too late, sentence 16
A mess, a spill or a sick pet is easiest to fix when it is fresh — so tell at once.
Who acts: mess · What happens: be, fix, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» 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 (mess), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mess | det |
| 2 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 easiest | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mess | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spill | det |
| 5 | spill | spill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 easiest | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 pet | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pet | det |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pet | amod |
| 9 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spill | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 easiest | cop |
| 11 | easiest | easy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fix | mark |
| 13 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easiest | advcl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 fresh | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fresh | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fresh | cop |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fix | advcl |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 tell | advmod |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easiest | parataxis |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | _ | 20 tell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 easiest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a mess | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | to-infinitive | a mess not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | mess | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:343-accidents-told-too-late.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): 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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