Too many details, too few, sentence 37
Not every vague answer should be pushed; giving space can help someone tell you later.
Who acts: giving, someone · What happens: not push, give, help, tell · To what, where: vague answer, space, someone, you · 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 (giving, someone), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 pushed | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 answer | det |
| 3 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answer | amod |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pushed | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pushed | aux:pass |
| 7 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 pushed | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 help | csubj |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pushed | parataxis |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 help | xcomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | obj |
| 16 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 tell | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not push | should · passive | every vague answer | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | space | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | can | giving | someone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | someone not said here | you | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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:37.
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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