Covering for a friend, sentence 6
Covering means lying or staying quiet to protect a friend.
What happens: cover, mean, lie, stay, protect · To what, where: friend
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: 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 | Covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | obj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 staying | cc |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 lying | conj |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 staying | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 protect | mark |
| 8 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quiet | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 protect | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Covering | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stay | gerund | quiet property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | protect | to-infinitive | a friend | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary |
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:6.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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