Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 36
Unclear promises cause rows; «give» means to keep, «lend» means to give back.
Who acts: Unclear promises · What happens: cause, give, mean, keep, lend, give back · To what, where: rows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (Unclear promises), 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 | Unclear | unclear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 promises | amod |
| 2 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cause | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | nsubj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cause | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 keep | mark |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 means | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lend | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 lend | punct |
| 14 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 means | nsubj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 lend | punct |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 means | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 means | xcomp |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 give | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | Unclear promises | rows | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition row=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | lend in a quote | infinitive | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | give back not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:36.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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