«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, sentence 38
A big percentage of a small group means little; always ask «out of how many?».
Who acts: big percentage · What happens: mean, ask · To what, where: little, many
This is a sentence of the lesson ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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 (big percentage), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 percentage | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 percentage | amod |
| 3 | percentage | percentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 group | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 group | amod |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 percentage | nmod |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 ask | advmod |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 means | parataxis |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 many | punct |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 many | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 many | case |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ask | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 many | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 many | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a big percentage of a small group | little | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | many | always property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:38.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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