Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 4
Some sentences wear a disguise: "Would you mind closing the window?" looks like a question but is a polite request, so answering "No" and not moving makes the class laugh.
Who acts: sentences, you, answering · What happens: wear, mind, close, look, be, answer · To what, where: disguise, window, polite request · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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 (sentences, you, answering), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 sentences | det |
| 2 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wear | nsubj |
| 3 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 disguise | det |
| 5 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wear | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 mind | punct |
| 8 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 mind | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nsubj |
| 10 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 disguise | conj |
| 11 | closing | close | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 mind | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 window | det |
| 13 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 closing | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | punct |
| 16 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wear | parataxis |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 question | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 question | det |
| 19 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looks | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 request | cc |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 request | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 request | det |
| 23 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 request | amod |
| 24 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looks | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 makes | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 answering | advmod |
| 27 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 makes | csubj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 No | punct |
| 29 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 moving | discourse |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 No | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 moving | cc |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 moving | advmod |
| 33 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 answering | conj |
| 34 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 looks | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 class | det |
| 36 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 laugh | compound |
| 37 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 makes | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | some sentences | a disguise | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mind in a quote | would | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | close in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the window | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | present | like a question | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a polite request | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | answer speech: ask | gerund | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | not move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | make | present | answering | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | laugh | infinitive | answering not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:007-kinds-of-sentences.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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