Feuds between families, sentence 29
Asking «why are we still fighting?» can help grown-ups see a feud has no reason left.
Who acts: we, Asking, grown ups, feud · What happens: ask, fight, help, see, have, leave · To what, where: reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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 (we, Asking, grown ups, feud), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 help | csubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 fighting | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fighting | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fighting | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fighting | nsubj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 fighting | advmod |
| 7 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Asking | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fighting | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 fighting | punct |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 help | aux |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ups | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ups | punct |
| 14 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 help | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 feud | det |
| 17 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 reason | det |
| 20 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 reason | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 help | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed indirect=0
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | present · progressive | we | still | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | help | can | Asking | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | grown ups | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have | present | a feud | no reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave | participle | no reason not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:29.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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