Strangers and tricky people, sentence 20
Tricky people may ask children for help, such as finding a lost pet, because children are kind and want to help; they may also offer treats or say a parent sent them.
Who acts: Tricky people, children, people, parent · What happens: ask, find, lose, be, want, help · To what, where: children, lost pet, treats, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tricky people, children, people, parent), 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 | Tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 help | case |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finding | punct |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 finding | mark |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 such | fixed |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ask | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pet | det |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pet | amod |
| 14 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finding | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kind | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 kind | mark |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kind | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kind | cop |
| 19 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 want | cc |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kind | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 want | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 offer | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offer | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 offer | aux |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 offer | advmod |
| 28 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | parataxis |
| 29 | treats | treat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 offer | obj |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 say | cc |
| 31 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 offer | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 parent | det |
| 33 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | nsubj |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 say | ccomp |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | Tricky people | children | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | Tricky people not said here | a lost pet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | children | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | want | present | children not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | children not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | offer | may | people | treats | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent treat=Theme | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | infinitive | people not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | send | past | a parent | people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:20.
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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