Accidents told too late, sentence 23
Swapping a broken thing for yours without saying so is a trick, not a fix.
Who acts: Swapping · What happens: swap, break, say, be · To what, where: broken thing, trick · 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 (Swapping), 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 | Swapping | swap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 trick | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Swapping | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yours | case |
| 6 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 1 Swapping | obl |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 saying | mark |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Swapping | advcl |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 saying | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 trick | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trick | det |
| 12 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fix | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 fix | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fix | det |
| 16 | fix | fix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trick | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swap | gerund | a broken thing | for yours | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for your=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | Swapping | a trick and a fix | 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:23.
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): R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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