Our street against theirs, sentence 21
Asking «why are we doing this?» can stop a feud more quickly than any fight.
Who acts: we · What happens: ask, do, stop · To what, where: this, feud · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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 (we), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stop | advcl |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 doing | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doing | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Asking | ccomp |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 doing | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Asking | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stop | aux |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feud | det |
| 13 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stop | obj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 11 stop | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 fight | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 fight | det |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quickly | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stop | 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 | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | we | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | stop | can | a feud | quickly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality feud=Eventuality |
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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:21.
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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