A stranger's story, sentence 32
Adults who need help should ask other adults; a grown-up asking a child to find a puppy is a warning sign.
Who acts: Adults, grown · What happens: need, ask, find, be · To what, where: help, other adults, child, puppy, warning sign
This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (Adults, grown), 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 | Adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Adults | acl:relcl |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 ask | aux |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 adults | amod |
| 8 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ask | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sign | det |
| 11 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sign | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grown | compound |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 grown | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asking | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 child | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 puppy | det |
| 20 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sign | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sign | det |
| 23 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sign | compound |
| 24 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ask | 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 | need | present | Adults | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | should | Adults | other adults | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | grown not said here | a child | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | grown not said here | a puppy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | grown | a warning sign | tree rules |
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:446-a-strangers-story.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): 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.
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