My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 4
The wise way is in the middle: enjoy the pride, and let the facts settle it — the chessboard, the score, a photo, a visit.
Who acts: wise way, facts · What happens: be, enjoy, let, settle · To what, where: middle, pride, facts, way
This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» 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 (wise way, facts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 middle | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 middle | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 middle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 middle | det |
| 7 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoy | punct |
| 9 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 middle | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pride | det |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enjoy | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 enjoy | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 facts | det |
| 16 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 let | obj |
| 17 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 settle | obj |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 chessboard | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chessboard | det |
| 21 | chessboard | chessboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 score | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 score | det |
| 24 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chessboard | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 photo | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 photo | det |
| 27 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chessboard | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 visit | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 visit | det |
| 30 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chessboard | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 middle | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the wise way | the middle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | infinitive | the pride | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pride=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the facts | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | settle | infinitive | the facts not said here | way | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |
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:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:4.
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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