Accidents told too late, sentence 17
Most accidents are easy to forgive; hiding them is what causes trouble.
Who acts: Most accidents · What happens: be, forgive, hide · To what, where: spill
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 (Most accidents), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 accidents | amod |
| 2 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 forgive | mark |
| 6 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 hiding | punct |
| 8 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 causes | csubj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hiding | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 causes | cop |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 causes | nsubj |
| 12 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | parataxis |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 causes | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | 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 | is | present | Most accidents | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forgive | to-infinitive | Most accidents not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | spill | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | cause 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:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:17.
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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