Walking away, sentence 29
A joke or an everyday reason, like tea time, can be an easy way out of an argument.
Who acts: joke · What happens: be · To what, where: easy way, argument
This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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 (joke), 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 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 reason | cc |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 5 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reason | amod |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joke | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 time | compound |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joke | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 way | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 way | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 argument | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 argument | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 argument | det |
| 20 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 way | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | a joke or a everyday reason | a easy way | a argument | 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:371-walking-away.lesson:29.
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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