Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help, sentence 26
A calm word from a friend can stop someone before a fight starts.
Who acts: calm word, fight · What happens: stop, start · To what, where: someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones who help» 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 (calm word, fight), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 2 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 word | amod |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 friend | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 word | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stop | aux |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 stop | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 starts | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fight | det |
| 12 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 starts | nsubj |
| 13 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stop | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | 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 | stop | can | a calm word from a friend | someone | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality someone=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | start | present | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:393-bystanders.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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