Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 9
«It's giving zero interest,» Bertie mutters («it's giving» means it looks like).
Who acts: prize, Bertie · What happens: give, mutter, mean, look · To what, where: zero interest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (prize, Bertie), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 giving | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 giving | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 giving | aux |
| 4 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 mutters | advcl |
| 5 | zero | zero | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 interest | nummod |
| 6 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giving | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 giving | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 mutters | punct |
| 9 | Bertie | Bertie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mutters | nsubj |
| 10 | mutters | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 giving | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 giving | aux |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 means | nsubj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 mutters | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 looks | nsubj |
| 19 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 means | ccomp |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 looks | advcl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 like | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 mutters | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg, voice=character
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present · progressive | prize | zero interest | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | present | Bertie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | present · progressive | prize | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | look | present | prize | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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