Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher, sentence 5

Rudeness rarely works: "Your park is trash and the swings are broke" gets ignored, but "I am writing about the broken swings in Oak Park; could you please arrange a repair?" gets read.

Who acts: Rudeness, park, swings, I, you · What happens: work, be, ignore, write, break, arrange · To what, where: trash, repair

This is a sentence of the lesson «Formal and informal: a mate versus the head teacher» 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 (Rudeness, park, swings, I), 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	Rudeness	rudeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
2	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 trash	punct
6	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 park	nmod:poss
7	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trash	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trash	cop
9	trash	trash	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ignored	nsubj:pass
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 broke	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swings	det
12	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 broke	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	cop
14	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trash	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct
16	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 ignored	aux:pass
17	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 works	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 writing	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 writing	cc
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 writing	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 writing	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 writing	aux
23	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ignored	conj
24	about	about	ADP	_	27 swings	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 swings	det
26	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 swings	amod
27	swings	swing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 writing	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 Oak	case
29	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 swings	nmod
30	Park	Park	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Oak	flat
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 arrange	punct
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 arrange	aux
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 arrange	nsubj
34	please	please	INTJ	_	35 arrange	discourse
35	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 works	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 repair	det
37	repair	repair	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 arrange	obj
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct
40	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 read	aux:pass
41	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 works	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	Rudeness		rarely property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	present	Your park	trash		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the swings		broke property	tree rules
4	ignore	present · passive		trash		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	write in a quote	present · progressive	I		about the broken swings in Oak	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about swing=Topic
6	break in a quote	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	arrange in a quote	could	you	a repair		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repair=Product
8	read	present · passive	Rudeness not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»

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:016-formal-and-informal-a-mate-versus-the-head-teacher.lesson:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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