Respect: how it is earned, sentence 23
Speaking up for something good when you are nervous is a kind of courage.
Who acts: you, Speaking · What happens: speak up, be · To what, where: kind
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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 (you, Speaking), 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 | Speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 kind | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Speaking | compound:prt |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 something | case |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Speaking | obl |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 something | amod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 nervous | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 nervous | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nervous | cop |
| 9 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Speaking | advcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 kind | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 courage | case |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak up speech: other | gerund | for something | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | you | nervous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Speaking | a kind | of courage | tree rules |
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:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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): R7-rel-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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