Whose turn is it?, sentence 24
Tricking a trusting little child stops being funny when they find out.
Who acts: Tricking, way · What happens: trick, trust, stop, be, find out · To what, where: trusting little child
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (Tricking, way), 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 | Tricking | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stops | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 3 | trusting | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 child | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tricking | obj |
| 6 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 funny | cop |
| 8 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stops | xcomp |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 find | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 funny | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 find | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | gerund | a trusting little child | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||||
| 2 | trust | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stop | present | Tricking | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is | gerund | Tricking not said here | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find out | present | way | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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:397-whose-turn-is-it.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. 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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