Stories that change, sentence 46
Checking a story works best done kindly and calmly, not to embarrass someone.
Who acts: Checking · What happens: check, work, do, not embarrass · To what, where: story, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (Checking), 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 | Checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 works | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Checking | obj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | best | good | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 works | advmod |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 works | advcl |
| 7 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 6 done | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 calmly | cc |
| 9 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 7 kindly | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embarrass | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 embarrass | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 embarrass | mark |
| 13 | embarrass | embarrass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | advcl |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 embarrass | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | gerund | a story | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work | present | Checking | good property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | participle | Checking not said here | kindly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not embarrass | to-infinitive | Checking not said here | someone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer |
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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:46.
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 ×3, 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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