Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules, sentence 12
You do not have to wait 24 hours to report a missing person; tell the police straight away.
Who acts: You · What happens: not have, wait, report, tell · To what, where: missing person, police · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Everyday sayings and grown-ups' rules» 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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wait | mark |
| 6 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 hours | nummod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 report | mark |
| 10 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wait | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 12 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 report | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 police | det |
| 17 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 away | advmod |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 tell | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · do-support | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | You not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | report | to-infinitive | You not said here | a missing person | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the police | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient |
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:027-everyday-sayings-and-grown-ups-rules.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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