Friends who get it, sentence 15
They laugh, and Ffion doesn't have to explain a thing.
Who acts: Friends, Ffion · What happens: laugh, not have, explain · To what, where: thing
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who get it» 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 (Friends, Ffion), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 laugh | nsubj |
| 2 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 5 | Ffion | Ffion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 have | advmod |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 laugh | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 explain | mark |
| 10 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explain | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Friends = friend | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not have | present · do-support | Ffion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | Ffion not said here | a thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:525-friends-who-get-it.lesson:15.
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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