Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 15
Asking is honest; snooping is taking what was not given.
Who acts: snooping · What happens: ask, be, take, not give
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (snooping), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 honest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 honest | cop |
| 3 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 honest | punct |
| 5 | snooping | snoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taking | aux |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 honest | parataxis |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 given | obj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 given | advmod |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taking | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 honest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | present · progressive | snooping | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not give | past · passive | snooping not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: what=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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:15.
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): R8-pos-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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