Leaving someone out, sentence 18
Saying someone can't be or do something because of their skin colour is wrong and hurtful.
Who acts: Saying · What happens: say, do, be · To what, where: someone, something · 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 (Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 wrong | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 be | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 do | cc |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | because | because | ADP | _ | 13 colour | mark |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 because | fixed |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 colour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 colour | compound |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wrong | cop |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurtful | cc |
| 17 | hurtful | hurtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wrong | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | something | Money's skin colour obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Saying | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Saying not said here | 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: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): R5-strong ×3. 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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