Our street against theirs, sentence 23
Things that belong to someone else, like a ball, should be given back, and saying sorry helps calm things down.
Who acts: Things, saying · What happens: belong, give back, say, help, calm down · To what, where: Things, sorry · 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 (Things, saying), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Things | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 belong | obl |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 someone | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ball | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 ball | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ball | det |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 someone | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Things | punct |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 given | aux:pass |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 given | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 helps | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 helps | cc |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 helps | csubj |
| 19 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saying | obj |
| 20 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | conj |
| 21 | calm | calm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 helps | xcomp |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 calm | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 calm | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | Things | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give back | should · passive | Things | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help | present | saying | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | calm down | infinitive | saying not said here | things | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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:23.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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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