Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 16
Someone who is quiet may be shy or new, not unfriendly or «stuck up» (thinking he is better than others).
Who acts: Someone, cutter · What happens: be, not be, stick up, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about 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 (Someone, cutter), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 shy | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 shy | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shy | cop |
| 7 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 new | cc |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shy | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unfriendly | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 unfriendly | advmod |
| 12 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shy | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 stuck | cc |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuck | punct |
| 15 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 unfriendly | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 stuck | compound:prt |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuck | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 thinking | punct |
| 19 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stuck | advcl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 better | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 better | cop |
| 22 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 thinking | ccomp |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 others | case |
| 24 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 better | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 thinking | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | may | Someone | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Someone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not be | Someone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | stick up in a quote | participle | Someone not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | gerund | Someone not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | present | cutter | than others; good 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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:16.
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): R8-pos-agree ×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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