Accidents told too late, sentence 24
Making amends can be time and kindness, like reading to someone whose glasses you broke.
Who acts: Making, kindness, you · What happens: make, be, read, break · To what, where: amends, time, someone, glasses
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 (Making, kindness, you), 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 | Making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | csubj |
| 2 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Making | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | cop |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kindness | cc |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reading | punct |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 reading | mark |
| 10 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 kindness | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 someone | case |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 reading | obl |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broke | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 someone | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | amends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product | |||||
| 2 | is a | can | Making | time and kindness | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | read | gerund | kindness not said here | someone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to someone=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | break | past | you | glasses | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient |
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:24.
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 ×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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