Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 27
Trying something new that you are not good at, like climbing a tree, takes courage.
Who acts: you, Trying · What happens: try, not be, climb, take · To what, where: something, tree, courage
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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, Trying), 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 | Trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 takes | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Trying | obj |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 good | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 good | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 climbing | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 climbing | punct |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 climbing | mark |
| 12 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 good | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 climbing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 takes | punct |
| 16 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 takes | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | something | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | you not said here | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | present | Trying | courage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:27.
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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