Rude words at the table, sentence 22
Little children copy the words they hear older children use.
Who acts: Little children, eyes, older children · What happens: copy, hear, use · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rude words at the table» 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 (Little children, eyes, older children), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | nsubj |
| 3 | copy | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 copy | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | acl:relcl |
| 8 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | nsubj |
| 10 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 copy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | Little children | the words | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | eyes = eye | the words not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present | older children | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:22.
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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