Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 31
Some people keep being unkind; you can stay polite but keep your distance and your secrets.
Who acts: people, you · What happens: keep, be, stay · To what, where: distance
This is a sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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 (people, you), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 unkind | cop |
| 5 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 stay | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 keep | parataxis |
| 10 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | xcomp |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stay | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 distance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 secrets | cc |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 17 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 distance | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | some people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | some people not said here | unkind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay | can | you | polite property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | your distance and your secrets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distance=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:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:31.
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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