A stranger's story, sentence 33
Strangers offering sweets, money or gifts in return for photos or favours are a red flag.
Who acts: Strangers · What happens: offer, be · To what, where: sweets, return, red flag
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 (Strangers), 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 | Strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flag | nsubj |
| 2 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Strangers | acl |
| 3 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 offering | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sweets | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 gifts | cc |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sweets | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 return | case |
| 9 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offering | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 photos | case |
| 11 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 return | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 favours | cc |
| 13 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 photos | conj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 flag | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flag | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flag | amod |
| 17 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 flag | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | gerund | Strangers not said here | sweets and money or gifts | return for photos or favours | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Strangers | a red flag | 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:33.
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 ×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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