Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 14
A short, cheerful no with a reason, then walking away, works better than a long argument, and others often follow the one who says no; saying no to a group takes more guts than following it.
Who acts: short cheerful no, others, one, saying · What happens: walk away, work, follow, say, take · To what, where: one, no, group, more guts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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 (short cheerful no, others, one, saying), 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 | 5 no | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 no | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | cheerful | cheerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 no | amod |
| 5 | no | no | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 works | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 reason | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 no | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walking | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 walking | advmod |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 no | acl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 walking | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 14 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 works | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 argument | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 argument | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 argument | amod |
| 19 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 better | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 follow | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 follow | cc |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 follow | nsubj |
| 23 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 follow | advmod |
| 24 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 works | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 follow | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 says | nsubj |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | acl:relcl |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 says | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 takes | csubj |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 saying | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 group | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 group | det |
| 35 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saying | obl |
| 36 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 works | parataxis |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 guts | amod |
| 38 | guts | gut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 takes | obj |
| 39 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 40 following | mark |
| 40 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 takes | advcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 following | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | gerund | a short cheerful no with a reason not said here | then | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | work | present | a short cheerful no with a reason | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | follow | present | others | the one | often property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the one | no | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | no | a group | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to group=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | take | present | saying | more guts | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gut=Theme | ||||
| 7 | follow | gerund | saying not said here | no | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.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): 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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