Whose turn is it?, sentence 26
Rules written down, like a turn chart, are easier to keep.
Who acts: Rules · What happens: write down, be, keep · To what, where: Rules
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 (Rules), 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 | Rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 easier | nsubj |
| 2 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Rules | acl |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 written | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chart | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 chart | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chart | det |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chart | compound |
| 8 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rules | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chart | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 easier | cop |
| 11 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 easier | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 easier | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | participle | Rules not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Rules | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Rules not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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: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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