Strangers and tricky people, sentence 17
If you are lost, a police officer, a shop worker or a parent with children are good people to ask.
Who acts: police officer · What happens: lose, be, ask · To what, where: you, good people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» 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 (police officer), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 lost | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 people | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 officer | det |
| 7 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 officer | compound |
| 8 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 people | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worker | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 worker | det |
| 11 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worker | compound |
| 12 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 officer | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 parent | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 parent | det |
| 15 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 officer | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 parent | nmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 people | cop |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ask | mark |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 people | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 people | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a police officer and a shop worker or a parent with children | good people | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:058-strangers-and-tricky-people.lesson:17.
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): R5-strong ×1. 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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