The older kid's «trade», sentence 31
Asking someone you trust before a «great deal» stops most tricks.
Who acts: you, deal » · What happens: ask, trust, stop · To what, where: someone, most tricks
This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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, deal »), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 stops | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Asking | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 trust | nsubj |
| 4 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 stops | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 deal | punct |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 » | compound |
| 10 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stops | nsubj |
| 11 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 tricks | amod |
| 13 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stops | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | someone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | trust | present | you | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | deal » | most tricks | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trick=Eventuality |
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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:31.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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