Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 26
Making fun of how someone sings hurts them, even if they sing loudly.
Who acts: someone, Making, candles · What happens: make, sing, hurt · To what, where: fun, candles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (someone, Making, candles), 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 | Making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hurts | csubj |
| 2 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sings | case |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 sings | advmod |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 sings | nsubj |
| 6 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fun | nmod |
| 7 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurts | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sing | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 sing | advmod |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 sing | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sing | nsubj |
| 13 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurts | advcl |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 13 sing | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | someone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | hurt | present | Making | candles = candle | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen | present | candles = candle | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:26.
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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