Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away, sentence 34
Some cousins are a bad influence; saying no to something wrong is right, even with family.
Who acts: cousins, saying · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bad influence, no, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 (cousins, saying), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 cousins | det |
| 2 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 influence | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 influence | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 influence | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 influence | amod |
| 6 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 right | csubj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 saying | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 something | case |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 saying | obl |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 something | amod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 influence | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 family | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 family | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 family | case |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 right | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 influence | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some cousins | a bad influence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | no | something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to something=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | saying | with family; right 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:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away.lesson:34.
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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