Jake and the head teacher, sentence 17
Many fights turn out to be about almost nothing once people slow down and look closely.
Who acts: Many fights, people · What happens: turn out, be, slow down, look · To what, where: nothing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (Many fights, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fights | amod |
| 2 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 turn | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 nothing | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nothing | cop |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 nothing | advmod |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 nothing | advmod |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 turn | xcomp |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 12 slow | mark |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 slow | nsubj |
| 12 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 slow | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slow | conj |
| 16 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 15 look | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | present | Many fights | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Many fights not said here | nothing | about, almost property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | slow down | present | people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | present | people not said here | closely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:17.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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