Too many details, too few, sentence 36
Too few details, like «stuff» and «places», can mean a lie, or a private worry the person doesn't want to share.
Who acts: few details, person, private worry · What happens: mean, not want, share · To what, where: lie, private worry
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 (few details, person, private worry), 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 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 2 few | advmod |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 details | amod |
| 3 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stuff | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 stuff | case |
| 6 | « | « | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stuff | det |
| 7 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 details | nmod |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 stuff | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 places | cc |
| 10 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 places | amod |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stuff | conj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 places | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 details | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 mean | aux |
| 15 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lie | det |
| 17 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mean | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 worry | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 worry | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 worry | det |
| 21 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 worry | amod |
| 22 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lie | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 person | det |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 want | nsubj |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 want | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 want | advmod |
| 27 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 worry | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 share | mark |
| 29 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 want | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 mean | 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 | mean | can | few details like « stuff and « places | a lie or a private worry | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not want | present · do-support | the person | a private worry not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | a private worry not said here | 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:36.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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