The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 10
«That's not fair,» says Nkechi, calmly.
Who acts: That, Nkechi · What happens: not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (That, Nkechi), 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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fair | advmod |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Nkechi | Nkechi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 11 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 8 says | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | That | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Nkechi | calmly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:10.
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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