Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 31
The kindest help is quiet and offered, and the other person can always say no.
Who acts: kindest help, other person · What happens: be, offer, say · To what, where: no. · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (kindest help, other person), 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 help | det |
| 2 | kindest | kind | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 help | amod |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 offered | cc |
| 7 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 quiet | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 say | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 person | amod |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | _ | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quiet | conj |
| 16 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 15 say | obj |
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 | is | present | the kindest help | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | participle | the kindest help not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | can | the other person | no. | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=Topic |
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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.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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