Loot boxes and the surprise trap, sentence 35
A pact with a friend helps, because saying no is easier with someone beside you.
Who acts: pact, saying · What happens: help, say, be · To what, where: no · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Loot boxes and the surprise trap» 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 (pact, saying), 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 | 2 pact | det |
| 2 | pact | pact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 friend | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pact | nmod |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 easier | mark |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 easier | csubj |
| 10 | no | no | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 saying | obj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 easier | cop |
| 12 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 helps | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 someone | case |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 easier | obl |
| 15 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 someone | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a pact with a friend | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | saying | with someone; easy property | tree rules |
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:413-loot-boxes-and-the-surprise-trap.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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