Wants and needs, sentence 10

Something can be both: plain shoes are a need, while expensive branded trainers are a want.

Who acts: Something, plain shoes, expensive branded trainers · What happens: be, brand · To what, where: both, need, want

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wants and needs» 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 (Something, plain shoes, expensive branded trainers), 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	Something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 both	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 both	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 both	cop
4	both	both	PRON	_	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 both	punct
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shoes	amod
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 need	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 need	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 need	det
10	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 both	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 want	mark
13	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 trainers	amod
14	branded	brand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 trainers	amod
15	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 want	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 want	det
18	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 both	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	can	Something	both	tree rules
2	is a	present	plain shoes	a need	tree rules
3	brand	participle			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	expensive branded trainers	a want	tree rules

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:007-wants-and-needs.lesson:10.

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 ×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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