Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 42
Giving more because you have more is good; giving quietly avoids making others feel small.
Who acts: you, Giving, others · What happens: give, have, be, avoid, make, feel · To what, where: more
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 (you, Giving, others), 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 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 good | csubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Giving | obj |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Giving | advcl |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | cop |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 giving | punct |
| 10 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 avoids | csubj |
| 11 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 10 giving | advmod |
| 12 | avoids | avoid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 good | parataxis |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 avoids | xcomp |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 making | xcomp |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | more | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Giving | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | gerund | quietly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | avoid | present | giving | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make | gerund | giving not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | feel | infinitive | others | small property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:42.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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