Taking too much, sentence 12
Envy can make you say mean things you do not really believe, like calling something ugly because you want it.
Who acts: Envy, you · What happens: make, say, not believe, call, want · To what, where: you, mean things, something, envy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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 (Envy, 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 | Envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 believe | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 believe | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 believe | advmod |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 believe | advmod |
| 12 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 14 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 calling | mark |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 calling | obj |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 something | amod |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 want | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 want | nsubj |
| 20 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 calling | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 want | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Envy | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | mean things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not believe | present · do-support | you | mean things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | something | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | want | present | you | envy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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