Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 19
Peeking at presents usually spoils the surprise for you, not only for the giver.
Who acts: Peeking · What happens: peek, spoil · To what, where: surprise
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 (Peeking), 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 | Peeking | peek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 spoils | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 presents | case |
| 3 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Peeking | obl |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 spoils | advmod |
| 5 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surprise | det |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoils | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 surprise | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 giver | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 giver | advmod |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 giver | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 giver | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giver | det |
| 15 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 surprise | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoils | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peek | gerund | at presents | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at present=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spoil | present | Peeking | the surprise and the giver | for you; usually property | 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:19.
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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