Maddie the tomboy, sentence 15
There is no rule against it; it's just habit, and habits can be changed by asking.
Who acts: rule · What happens: be, change, ask · To what, where: habit, habits
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie the tomboy» 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 (rule), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 rule | det |
| 4 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rule | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 habit | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 habit | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 habit | cop |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 habit | advmod |
| 11 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 changed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 changed | cc |
| 14 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 changed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 changed | aux:pass |
| 17 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 habit | conj |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 19 asking | mark |
| 19 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 changed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | 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 | be | present | no rule against rec. | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | rule | habit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | can · passive | habits | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:378-maddie-the-tomboy.lesson:15.
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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