The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 30
Blaming a pet or a baby who cannot answer back is a cowardly lie and often fails.
Who acts: baby, Blaming · What happens: blame, not answer back, be, fail · To what, where: pet, cowardly lie
This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (baby, Blaming), 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 | Blaming | blame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 lie | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pet | det |
| 3 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Blaming | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 baby | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 baby | det |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pet | conj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 answer | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 answer | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 answer | advmod |
| 10 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 baby | acl:relcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 answer | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lie | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lie | det |
| 14 | cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lie | amod |
| 15 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fails | cc |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 fails | advmod |
| 18 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lie | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | gerund | a pet or a baby | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not answer back speech: assert | can | a baby | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Blaming | a cowardly lie | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fail | present | Blaming not said here | often property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:30.
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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