Regret, silly buys and peer pressure, sentence 2
Many videos of kids unboxing heaps of toys are really adverts: the toys were given free so that you would want them, and comparing yourself with them, or with older and richer people, can make you unhappy for no reason.
Who acts: kids, Many videos, you, comparing · What happens: unbox, be, give, want, compare, make · To what, where: heaps, adverts, toys, yourself, you
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 (kids, Many videos, you, comparing), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 videos | amod |
| 2 | videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 adverts | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kids | case |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 videos | nmod |
| 5 | unboxing | unbox | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kids | acl |
| 6 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unboxing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 toys | case |
| 8 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heaps | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 adverts | cop |
| 10 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 adverts | advmod |
| 11 | adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 toys | det |
| 14 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux:pass |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 adverts | parataxis |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 given | xcomp |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 22 want | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 want | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 want | aux |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 given | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 want | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 make | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 make | cc |
| 26 | comparing | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 make | csubj |
| 27 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 comparing | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 comparing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 people | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 make | cc |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 33 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 people | amod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 richer | cc |
| 35 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 older | conj |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 them | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 people | punct |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 make | aux |
| 39 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 want | conj |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 make | obj |
| 41 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 make | xcomp |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 reason | case |
| 43 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 44 reason | det |
| 44 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 unhappy | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 adverts | punct |
Pragmatics
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unbox | gerund | kids not said here | heaps of toys | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Many videos of kids | adverts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the toys | free property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | would | you | heaps = heap | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | compare | gerund | yourself | with videos = video | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient with they=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | make | can | comparing | you | unhappy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=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:money:010-regret-silly-buys-and-peer-pressure.lesson:2.
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): 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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