Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 33
The same person can be grumpy about small things and very kind when it matters.
Who acts: same person, it · What happens: be, matter
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 (same person, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grumpy | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grumpy | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 grumpy | cop |
| 6 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grumpy | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kind | cc |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 kind | advmod |
| 12 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grumpy | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 matters | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 matters | nsubj |
| 15 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 kind | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grumpy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | the same person | about small things; grumpy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the same person not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | matter | present | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: 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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:33.
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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