The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 34

If you break something by accident, owning up is better than running away; running away makes you look guiltier.

Who acts: you, owning, running · What happens: break, own up, be, run away, make, look · To what, where: something, you

This is a sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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 (you, owning, running), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 break	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 break	nsubj
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	advcl
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 break	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 accident	case
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
8	owning	own	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 better	csubj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 owning	compound:prt
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 running	mark
13	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 better	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 running	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 makes	punct
16	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 makes	csubj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 running	advmod
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 makes	obj
20	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 makes	xcomp
21	guiltier	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 look	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break a condition, not said to happen	present	you	something	by accident	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient
2	own up	gerund				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	is	present	owning		good property	tree rules
4	run away	gerund	owning not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run away	gerund			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	present	running	you		tree rules
7	look	present	you not said here		guilty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:34.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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