The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 12
Covering for each other can be funny.
Who acts: Covering · What happens: cover, be
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 (Covering), 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 | Covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 funny | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 each | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 1 Covering | obl |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 funny | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 funny | cop |
| 7 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 funny | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | for each | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | can | Covering | funny property | tree rules |
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:12.
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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