A stranger's story, sentence 39
People with sad stories can be sent to someone whose job it is to help, like a station worker or a police officer.
Who acts: job · What happens: send, be · To what, where: People, someone, desk
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 (job), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 People | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 someone | case |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 sent | obl |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 job | nmod:poss |
| 11 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | nsubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 help | mark |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 someone | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worker | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 worker | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 worker | det |
| 19 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worker | compound |
| 20 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 help | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 officer | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 officer | det |
| 23 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 officer | compound |
| 24 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 worker | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | can · passive | People with sad stories | someone | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to someone=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | present | job | desk | like a station worker or a police officer; help property | 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:39.
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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