Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 9
Snooping means looking at things that are meant for someone else: diaries, messages, letters, desks, conversations through a door.
Who acts: Snooping · What happens: mean, look · To what, where: things
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 | Snooping | snoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 things | case |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looking | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 meant | aux:pass |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 someone | case |
| 10 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 meant | obl |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 someone | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 diaries | punct |
| 13 | diaries | diary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 someone | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 messages | punct |
| 15 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 diaries | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 letters | punct |
| 17 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 diaries | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 desks | punct |
| 19 | desks | desk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 diaries | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 conversations | punct |
| 21 | conversations | conversation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 diaries | conj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 diaries | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Snooping | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look not said to happen | gerund | Snooping not said here | at things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | present · passive | things | for someone | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for someone=Attribute |
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:9.
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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