Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 28
The more often someone speaks up, the easier it usually gets.
Who acts: someone, Fighting · What happens: speak up, get
This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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, Fighting), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 someone | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 often | advmod |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 speaks | advmod |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 speaks | nsubj |
| 5 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 speaks | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 easier | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 easier | det |
| 9 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 speaks | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 gets | advmod |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 easier | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other | present | someone | often property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Fighting | usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:28.
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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