The friend with a PS6, sentence 5
Boasts often have a tell: the thing can never be seen.
Who acts: Boasts, tell · What happens: have, not see · To what, where: tell, thing
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 (Boasts, tell), 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 | Boasts | boast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tell | det |
| 5 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 seen | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tell | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Boasts | a tell | often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tell=Patient | |||
| 2 | not see | can · passive | a tell not said here | the thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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:5.
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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