Promises to family, sentence 18
If you need to break a plan, telling the person in advance is kinder than not turning up.
Who acts: you, telling · What happens: need, break, tell, be, not turn up · To what, where: plan, person, advance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (you, telling), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 need | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kinder | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 break | mark |
| 5 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 need | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 telling | punct |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 kinder | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 telling | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 advance | case |
| 13 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 telling | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kinder | cop |
| 15 | kinder | kind | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 turning | mark |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 turning | advmod |
| 18 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 kinder | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 turning | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kinder | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a plan | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plan=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the person | advance | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | telling | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not turn up | gerund | telling not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:18.
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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