Your amazing brain and senses, sentence 17
When someone sells a cure for a problem, first check the problem is real.
Who acts: someone, you, problem · What happens: sell, check, be · To what, where: cure
This is a sentence of the lesson «Your amazing brain and senses» of the myths 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, you, problem), 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 sells | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 sells | nsubj |
| 3 | sells | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 check | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cure | det |
| 5 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sells | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 problem | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 problem | det |
| 8 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 check | punct |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 check | advmod |
| 11 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 problem | det |
| 13 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 real | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 real | cop |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 check | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 check | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present | someone | a cure | for a problem | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cure=Theme for problem=Asset | |||
| 2 | check | imperative | you not said here | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the problem | real property | 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:myths:002-your-amazing-brain-and-senses.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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