Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 11
When someone promises you something too good to be true, like double money back tomorrow, it is probably a trick; tell a trusted adult.
Who acts: someone, money · What happens: promise, be, tell · To what, where: something, you, trick, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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 (someone, money), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 promises | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 promises | nsubj |
| 3 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 trick | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 promises | iobj |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 promises | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 true | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 true | cop |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 money | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 13 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 money | amod |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promises | obl |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 money | advmod |
| 16 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 promises | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trick | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 trick | cop |
| 20 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 22 trick | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 trick | det |
| 22 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 tell | punct |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 trick | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 adult | det |
| 26 | trusted | trust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 adult | amod |
| 27 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | present | someone | something | you | like double money | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal something=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | someone not said here | something not said here | true property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | money | a trick | probably property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:11.
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. 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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