Too many details, too few, sentence 34
When a reason is pushed onto someone else, ask yourself whether it's really theirs.
Who acts: you, reason · What happens: push, ask, be · To what, where: reason, someone, yourself, names · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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, reason), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 pushed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pushed | aux:pass |
| 5 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ask | advcl |
| 6 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 7 someone | case |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 pushed | obl |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 someone | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pushed | punct |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 theirs | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 theirs | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 theirs | cop |
| 15 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 theirs | advmod |
| 16 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present · passive | a reason | someone | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme onto someone=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | reason | names = name | 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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:34.
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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