Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 40
When someone stammers, wait, look at them and let them finish their own words.
Who acts: someone, you, words · What happens: stammer, wait, look, let, finish, word · To what, where: words, own words
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 (someone, you, words), 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 | _ | 3 stammers | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 stammers | nsubj |
| 3 | stammers | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 words | amod |
| 16 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 finish | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stammer speech: other | present | someone | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | at words = word | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | words = word | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | finish | infinitive | words = word not said here | words's own words | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | word | words = word | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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:40.
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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