Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 7

A main clause makes sense on its own; a subordinate clause, like "because I was tired", needs a main clause to make full sense.

Who acts: main clause, conjunction, subordinate clause · What happens: make, be, need · To what, where: sense, own, main clause, full sense

This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» 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 (main clause, conjunction, subordinate clause), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 clause	det
2	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clause	amod
3	clause	clause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 makes	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 a	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 clause	det
11	subordinate	subordinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clause	amod
12	clause	clause	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clause	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	19 tired	case
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 tired	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tired	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tired	cop
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clause	appos
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 tired	punct
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 needs	punct
22	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 clause	det
24	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 clause	amod
25	clause	clause	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needs	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 clause	acl
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sense	amod
29	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	a main clause	sense	clause's own		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product
2	is in a quote	past	a conjunction = conjunction			tired property	tree rules
3	need	present	a subordinate clause	a main clause			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive	a subordinate clause not said here	full sense			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product

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:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:7.

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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