Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 24
A calm, honest request with good reasons is more likely to win more time than shouting or sulking.
Who acts: calm honest request, more time · What happens: be, win, shout, sulk
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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 honest request, more time), 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 | honest | honest | 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 | _ | 13 win | mark |
| 13 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 likely | xcomp |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 win | obj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 17 shouting | mark |
| 17 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 sulking | cc |
| 19 | sulking | sulk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 shouting | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 likely | 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 | is | present | a calm honest request with good reasons | likely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | to-infinitive | a calm honest request with good reasons not said here | time | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | more time not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sulk | gerund | more time not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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