Maddie the tomboy, sentence 20
Parents sometimes say no to a sport because they are worried, and talking calmly can change their mind.
Who acts: Parents, talking, sport · What happens: say, be, talk, change, mind · To what, where: sport, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Parents, talking, sport), 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 say | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sport | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sport | det |
| 7 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obl |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 worried | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worried | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worried | cop |
| 11 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 say | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 change | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 change | cc |
| 14 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 change | csubj |
| 15 | calmly | calmly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 talking | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 change | aux |
| 17 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 change | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Parents | a sport | sometimes property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sport=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | Parents = parent | worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | calmly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | change | can | talking | sport's mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mind | sport | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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:20.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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