Showing off, sentence 25
People usually show off because they want to be liked, noticed or thought tough.
Who acts: People · What happens: show off, want, like, notice, think
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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 show | advmod |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 show | compound:prt |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 want | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 liked | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 liked | aux:pass |
| 10 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 want | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 liked | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 liked | conj |
| 15 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show off | present | People | usually property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | want | present | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | people not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» | |||||
| 4 | notice | participle | people not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | participle | people not said here | tough property | vn focus-87.1-1 «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:390-showing-off.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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