Taking too much, sentence 18

Not sharing a new toy because it might break can send a friend home early, not wanting to play again; sharing it and showing how to use it gently is wiser.

Who acts: toy, sharing · What happens: not share, break, send, not want, play, share · To what, where: new toy, friend · 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 (toy, sharing), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 sharing	advmod
2	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 send	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 toy	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toy	amod
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sharing	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 break	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 break	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sharing	advcl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 send	aux
11	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 send	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	11 send	advmod
15	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 send	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanting	punct
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 wanting	advmod
18	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 send	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 play	mark
20	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wanting	xcomp
21	again	again	ADV	_	20 play	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sharing	punct
23	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 wiser	csubj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sharing	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 showing	cc
26	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sharing	conj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 use	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 use	mark
29	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 showing	ccomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	obj
31	gently	gently	ADV	_	29 use	advmod
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 wiser	cop
33	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 send	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sharing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not share	gerund		a new toy			tree rules
2	break	might	toy				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	send	can	sharing	a friend		early, home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
4	not want	gerund	sharing not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	sharing not said here		again		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	share	gerund		friend			tree rules
7	show	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	use	to-infinitive		friend		gently property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
9	is	present	sharing			wise property	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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.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): 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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