Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 18
Inviting the whole class except one person is crueller than inviting just a few friends.
Who acts: Inviting · What happens: invite, be · To what, where: whole class, few friends
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» 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 (Inviting), 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 | Inviting | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 crueller | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 class | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 class | amod |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Inviting | obj |
| 5 | except | except | ADP | _ | 7 person | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 person | nummod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Inviting | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 crueller | cop |
| 9 | crueller | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 inviting | mark |
| 11 | inviting | invite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 crueller | advcl |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 friends | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 friends | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 inviting | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crueller | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | gerund | the whole class | except one person | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Inviting | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | invite | gerund | Inviting not said here | a few friends | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
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:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.lesson:18.
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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