Rude words at the table, sentence 25
A rude sign behind someone's back is still rude, even if they do not see it.
Who acts: rude sign, eyes · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: sign
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 (rude sign, eyes), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sign | det |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sign | amod |
| 3 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rude | nsubj |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sign | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rude | cop |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 rude | advmod |
| 10 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rude | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rude | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a rude sign behind someone's back | still | rude property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not see a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | eyes = eye | sign | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:25.
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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