Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 25
Kind words, like a compliment or a hello, work far better than tugs and tricks.
Who acts: Kind words · What happens: work
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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 (Kind words), 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 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 words | amod |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 work | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 compliment | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 compliment | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 compliment | det |
| 6 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 hello | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hello | det |
| 9 | hello | hello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compliment | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 work | punct |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 better | advmod |
| 13 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 work | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 tugs | case |
| 15 | tugs | tug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 better | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tricks | cc |
| 17 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tugs | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Kind words like a compliment or a hello | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:25.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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