Walking away, sentence 4
A fight needs two people; Sam simply did not turn up to it.
Who acts: fight, Sam · What happens: need, not turn up · To what, where: two people, fight
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 (fight, Sam), 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 fight | det |
| 2 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 people | nummod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 needs | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 turn | punct |
| 7 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 11 turn | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 turn | advmod |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needs | parataxis |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 turn | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turn | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | a fight | two people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not turn up | past · do-support | Sam | fight | simply property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:371-walking-away.lesson:4.
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): 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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