Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 36
Having a small job, like handing round food at a party, helps shy people start talking.
Who acts: Having, shy people · What happens: have, hand, help, start, talk · To what, where: small job, round food, party
This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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 (Having, shy people), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 job | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 job | amod |
| 4 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 handing | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 handing | mark |
| 7 | handing | hand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Having | advcl |
| 8 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 food | amod |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handing | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 party | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 party | det |
| 12 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 handing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 helps | punct |
| 14 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 start | nsubj |
| 17 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 helps | ccomp |
| 18 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 start | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 helps | 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 | have | gerund | a small job | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hand | gerund | round food | a party | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present | Having | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | start | present | shy people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | shy people not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.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): 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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