Leaving someone out, sentence 17

Teasing someone about old clothes or having less money is unfair; it says nothing about who they are.

Who acts: Teasing, class, Money · What happens: tease, have, be, say · To what, where: someone, less money, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» 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 (Teasing, class, Money), 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	Teasing	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 unfair	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Teasing	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 clothes	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clothes	amod
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 someone	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 having	cc
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Teasing	conj
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 money	amod
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 unfair	cop
11	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 unfair	parataxis
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 says	obj
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 who	case
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 nothing	nmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 who	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 who	cop
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 unfair	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tease	gerund		someone	about old clothes	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
2	have	gerund		less money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
3	is	present	Teasing		unfair property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	class	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	is	present	Money			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:347-leaving-someone-out.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): 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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