Big brothers, sentence 6
Look for the small kindness under the teasing, and say thanks.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, say · To what, where: thanks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 kindness | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kindness | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kindness | amod |
| 5 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 teasing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 teasing | det |
| 8 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kindness | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 12 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | for the small kindness under the teasing | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for kindness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=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:501-big-brothers.lesson:6.
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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