Wants and needs, sentence 12
Wanting things is normal and fine; the skill is deciding what comes first.
Who acts: Wanting, skill · What happens: want, be, decide, come · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wanting, skill), 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 | Wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 normal | csubj |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wanting | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 normal | cop |
| 4 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fine | cc |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 normal | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 normal | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skill | det |
| 9 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deciding | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 deciding | aux |
| 11 | deciding | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 normal | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 comes | nsubj |
| 13 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 deciding | ccomp |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 comes | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 normal | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | gerund | things | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Wanting | normal property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Wanting not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | decide | present · progressive | the skill | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come | present | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:money:007-wants-and-needs.lesson:12.
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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