Manners and kindness, sentence 11
Taking turns means everyone gets a fair chance.
Who acts: Taking, everyone · What happens: take, mean, get · To what, where: turns, fair chance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» 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 (Taking, everyone), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | csubj |
| 2 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chance | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chance | amod |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | turns | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Taking | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get | present | everyone | a fair chance | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=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:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:11.
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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