Rude words at the table, sentence 27
Saying sorry soon after a rude word helps more than waiting days.
Who acts: Saying · What happens: say, help, wait · To what, where: sorry, more · 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 (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 | 8 helps | csubj |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 helps | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 6 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 word | amod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Saying | obl |
| 8 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 helps | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 waiting | mark |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 helps | advcl |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 waiting | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 helps | 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 | sorry | a rude word obl; soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help | present | Saying | more | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Saying not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:354-rude-words-eye-rolls-and-i-hate-you.lesson:27.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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