Wants and needs, sentence 8
Food is a need, but sweets and treats are wants.
Who acts: Food, sweets · What happens: be · To what, where: need, wants
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 (Food, sweets), 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 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 need | det |
| 4 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wants | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 wants | cc |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wants | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 treats | cc |
| 9 | treats | treat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sweets | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wants | cop |
| 11 | wants | want | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Food | a need but wants | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | sweets and treats | wants | 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:8.
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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