Eyes, ears and moving your body, sentence 10
If you find it hard to hear the teacher, tell a parent, because you may need a hearing test.
Who acts: you · What happens: find, hear, tell, need · To what, where: adult, teacher, parent, hearing test · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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 (you), 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 | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 find | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teacher | det |
| 9 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 parent | det |
| 13 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 need | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 need | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 need | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 need | aux |
| 18 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 test | det |
| 20 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 test | compound |
| 21 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 need | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | you | adult | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | the teacher | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer teacher=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | need | may | you | a hearing test | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot test=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:087-eyes-ears-and-moving.lesson:10.
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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