Showing off, sentence 24

So the trick is to like people as they are, so they don't need to show off, and to cheer kindness, not danger.

Who acts: people · What happens: be, like, not need, show off, cheer · To what, where: trick, people, kindness

This is a sentence of the lesson «Showing off» 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 (people), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 trick	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trick	det
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trick	cop
5	to	to	PART	_	6 like	mark
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trick	xcomp
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 like	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 are	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 are	nsubj
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 like	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 need	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 need	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 need	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 need	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 need	advmod
16	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 are	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 show	mark
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 need	xcomp
19	off	off	ADP	_	18 show	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cheer	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cheer	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cheer	mark
23	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 show	conj
24	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cheer	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 danger	punct
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 danger	advmod
27	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kindness	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the trick	tree rules
2	like	to-infinitive		people	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme
3	does	present	people		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not need	present · do-support	people		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cheer	to-infinitive	people not said here	kindness and danger	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus kindness=Experiencer

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:390-showing-off.lesson:24.

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): R5-strong ×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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