«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, sentence 42
Things bought from strangers, like at a car boot sale, are hard to return, so test them first.
Who acts: Things · What happens: buy, be, return, test · To what, where: Things, strangers
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 (Things), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hard | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Things | acl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 strangers | case |
| 4 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bought | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sale | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 sale | case |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sale | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sale | det |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 boot | compound |
| 10 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sale | compound |
| 11 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Things | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hard | cop |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 test | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 test | advmod |
| 19 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hard | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 test | obj |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 test | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 hard | 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 | buy | participle | Things not said here | strangers | like a boot sale | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from stranger=Source | |||
| 2 | is | present | Things | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | Things not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | test | infinitive | things = thing | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:42.
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): 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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