The friend with a PS6, sentence 28
If someone always has a reason why you can't see the thing, it is probably a story, not a fact.
Who acts: someone, you, thing · What happens: have, not see, be · To what, where: reason, thing, story
This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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 (someone, you, thing), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 has | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 has | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | _ | 4 has | advmod |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 story | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 see | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 reason | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 story | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 story | cop |
| 17 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 19 story | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fact | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 fact | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fact | det |
| 23 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 story | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 story | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | a reason | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | |||
| 2 | not see | can | you | the thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | thing | a story | probably 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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:28.
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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