Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 30
You can quietly not believe a boast without embarrassing the person.
Who acts: You · What happens: not believe, embarrass · To what, where: boast, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 3 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boast | det |
| 7 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 embarrassing | mark |
| 9 | embarrassing | embarrass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 believe | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 embarrassing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | can | You | a boast | quietly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boast=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | embarrass | gerund | You not said here | the person | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus person=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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.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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