Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 26
Reading someone else's private note without asking is not respectful.
Who acts: Reading, someone · What happens: read, ask, not be, note · To what, where: private note
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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 (Reading, someone), 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 | Reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 respectful | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 note | nmod:poss |
| 3 | else | else | ADV | _ | 2 someone | advmod |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 someone | case |
| 5 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 note | amod |
| 6 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reading | obj |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 asking | mark |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Reading | advcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 respectful | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 respectful | advmod |
| 11 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 respectful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | someone's private note | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is | present | Reading | respectful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | note | someone | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.lesson:26.
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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