Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 25
Compliments to your face and mean comments behind your back mean the friendship isn't real.
Who acts: Compliments, friendship · What happens: mean, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (Compliments, friendship), 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 | Compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 face | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compliments | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 comments | cc |
| 6 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 comments | amod |
| 7 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 face | conj |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comments | nmod |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 friendship | det |
| 13 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 real | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 real | cop |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 real | advmod |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mean | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 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 | present | Compliments to your face and mean comments behind your back | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | the friendship | real property | 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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:25.
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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