Growing apart, sentence 41
When a friendship feels wrong because of a real problem, talking about it calmly can fix it, while silence lets it drift.
Who acts: friendship, talking, silence, friend · What happens: feel, talk, fix, let, drift · To what, where: friend
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing apart» 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 (friendship, talking, silence, friend), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 feels | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friendship | det |
| 3 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | nsubj |
| 4 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fix | advcl |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feels | xcomp |
| 6 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 problem | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 because | fixed |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 problem | det |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 problem | amod |
| 10 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feels | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talking | punct |
| 12 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 fix | csubj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 talking | obl |
| 15 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 12 talking | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 fix | aux |
| 17 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fix | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lets | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 lets | mark |
| 21 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lets | nsubj |
| 22 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fix | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drift | nsubj |
| 24 | drift | drift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lets | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 fix | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | a friendship | because a real problem; wrong property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | about problem; calmly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fix | can | talking | friend | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let | present | silence | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | drift | infinitive | friend | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:464-growing-apart.lesson:41.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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