Taking care of your things and money, sentence 13
A want is something nice to have but not necessary, such as a toy or sweets.
Who acts: want · What happens: be, have · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking care of your things and money» 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 (want), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 want | det |
| 2 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | cop |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nice | xcomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 necessary | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 necessary | advmod |
| 10 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nice | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toy | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 toy | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 toy | det |
| 15 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 sweets | cc |
| 17 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 toy | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 something | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a want | something | such a toy or sweets | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | a want not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:037-things-and-money.lesson:13.
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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