Covering for a friend, sentence 32
When a whole group stays silent, everyone may be punished, and the person who did it can end it by owning up.
Who acts: whole group, person · What happens: stay, punish, do, end, own up · To what, where: everyone, person, group
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (whole group, person), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stays | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 group | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 group | amod |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stays | nsubj |
| 5 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 punished | advcl |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stays | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stays | punct |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 punished | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 punished | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 punished | aux:pass |
| 11 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 punished | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 end | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 person | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | obj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | aux |
| 20 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 punished | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 end | obj |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 owning | mark |
| 23 | owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 end | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 owning | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 punished | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a whole group | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | punish | may · passive | everyone | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the person | person | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | end | can | the person | group | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | own up | gerund | the person not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:32.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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