Parents' rules for big games, sentence 35
A calm, polite request with good reasons is more likely to be listened to than nagging or sneaking.
Who acts: calm polite request · What happens: be, listen to, nag, sneak
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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 polite request), 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 | 5 request | det |
| 2 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 request | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 calm | punct |
| 4 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 request | amod |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 likely | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 reasons | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reasons | amod |
| 8 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 request | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 likely | cop |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 likely | advmod |
| 11 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 listened | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 listened | aux:pass |
| 14 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 likely | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 listened | compound:prt |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 nagging | mark |
| 17 | nagging | nag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 listened | advcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 sneaking | cc |
| 19 | sneaking | sneak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 nagging | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a calm polite request with good reasons | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen to | to-infinitive · passive | a calm polite request with good reasons not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | nag | gerund | a calm polite request with good reasons not said here | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sneak | gerund | a calm polite request with good reasons not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:35.
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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