Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 41
The kindest help is given quietly, not in front of others, and the other person can say no.
Who acts: other person · What happens: give, say · To what, where: kindest help, front, 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 (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 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 5 given | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 front | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 front | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 front | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 say | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 say | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 person | amod |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 say | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | aux |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 given | conj |
| 20 | no. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 19 say | obj |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | the kindest help | front of others | quietly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | can | the other person | no. | 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:41.
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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