Your body and how you look, sentence 6
Someone being unkind about your looks says more about them than about you.
Who acts: Someone · What happens: be, say · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Your body and how you look» 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), 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 says | nsubj |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 unkind | cop |
| 3 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | csubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 looks | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 looks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 unkind | obl |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 more | obl |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 more | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | about your looks; unkind property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Someone | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=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:088-liking-how-you-look.lesson:6.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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