Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 17
Letters addressed to someone are for that person; in many countries opening another person's post on purpose is against the law.
Who acts: Letters, opening · What happens: address, be, open · To what, where: Letters, post, purpose, many countries
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 (Letters, opening), 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 | Letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 person | nsubj |
| 2 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Letters | acl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 addressed | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 person | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 person | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 countries | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 countries | amod |
| 12 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 law | obl |
| 13 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 law | csubj |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 post | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 person | case |
| 17 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opening | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 purpose | case |
| 19 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opening | obl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 law | cop |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 law | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 law | det |
| 23 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 person | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 person | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | participle | Letters not said here | to someone | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Letters | for that person | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | gerund | another person's post | purpose | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent post=Theme on purpose=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | opening | many countries | against the law | 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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:17.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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