Jake, always in bruises, sentence 28
Asking for help with schoolwork is a strong thing to do, not a soft one.
Who acts: Asking · What happens: ask, be, do · To what, where: strong thing
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 (Asking), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 thing | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 help | case |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 schoolwork | case |
| 5 | schoolwork | schoolwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thing | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thing | det |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thing | amod |
| 9 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thing | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 one | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thing | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help with schoolwork | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Asking | a strong thing and a soft one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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:372-jake-always-in-bruises.lesson:28.
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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