Jake, always in bruises, sentence 24
Being picked because people are scared is not the same as being wanted.
Who acts: people · What happens: pick, be, not be, want
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake, always in bruises» 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 (people), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 picked | aux:pass |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 same | csubj:pass |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 scared | mark |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 scared | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 scared | cop |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 picked | advcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 same | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 same | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 same | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 wanted | mark |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 wanted | aux:pass |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 same | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 same | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | gerund · passive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | people | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | same property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | want | gerund · passive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» |
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:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:24.
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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