Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 9
Mrs Okafor thinks, and says: «That's a fair question, Sam.
Who acts: Mrs, That · What happens: think, say, be · To what, where: fair question · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mrs, That), 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 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 2 | Okafor | Okafor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs | flat |
| 3 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 says | cc |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinks | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 question | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 question | mark |
| 9 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 question | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 question | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 question | det |
| 12 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 question | amod |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sam | punct |
| 15 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 question | vocative |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Mrs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | That | a fair question | Sam vocative | tree rules |
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: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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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