Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 30
Some grown-ups give second chances; take them and don't waste them.
Who acts: grown ups · What happens: grow, give, take, not waste · To what, where: second chances, chances
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (grown ups), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 ups | det |
| 2 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grown | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 chances | amod |
| 7 | chances | chance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 waste | cc |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 waste | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 waste | advmod |
| 14 | waste | waste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waste | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give | present | some grown ups | second chances | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | chances = chance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not waste | infinitive · do-support | chances = chance | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:30.
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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