Snooping on phones, diaries and letters, sentence 24
Slipping back into a bad habit after a promise is common; changing habits takes many tries.
Who acts: Slipping, changing · What happens: slip back, be, change, take · To what, where: bad habit, habits, many tries
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snooping on phones, diaries and letters» 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 (Slipping, changing), 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 | Slipping | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 common | csubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Slipping | advmod |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 habit | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 habit | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 habit | amod |
| 6 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slipping | obl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 promise | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 promise | det |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slipping | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 common | cop |
| 11 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 changing | punct |
| 13 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 takes | csubj |
| 14 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 changing | obj |
| 15 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 common | parataxis |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tries | amod |
| 17 | tries | try | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 takes | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 common | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip back | gerund | a bad habit | after a promise | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Slipping | common property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | gerund | habits | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent habit=Patient | |||||
| 4 | take | present | changing | many tries | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=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:357-snooping-on-phones-bags-calls-and-codes.lesson:24.
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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