Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 14
"I can sing and I will dance" has four verbs: can and will are helping (modal) verbs, sing and dance are main verbs.
Who acts: pasts, modal verbs · What happens: sing, dance, have, help, be · To what, where: four verbs, main verbs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (pasts, modal verbs), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sing | aux |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 has | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dance | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dance | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 dance | aux |
| 8 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sing | conj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 verbs | nummod |
| 12 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 can | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 will | cc |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 can | conj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 helping | aux |
| 18 | helping | help | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 has | parataxis |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 modal | punct |
| 20 | modal | modal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 verbs | amod |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 modal | punct |
| 22 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 verbs | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sing | punct |
| 24 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 verbs | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dance | cc |
| 26 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sing | conj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 verbs | cop |
| 28 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 verbs | amod |
| 29 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | can | the pasts = past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | dance in a quote | future | the pasts = past | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | four verbs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient | |||||
| 4 | help | present · progressive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | modal verbs and sing and dance | main verbs | 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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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