Friends who cling to a legend, sentence 4
So check before you argue, check together rather than against each other, and never make it about someone's family, cleverness or feelings.
Who acts: you · What happens: check, argue, not make · To what, where: WRONG
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friends who cling to a legend» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 check | advmod |
| 2 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 argue | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 argue | nsubj |
| 5 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 check | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 check | punct |
| 7 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 check | conj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 check | advmod |
| 9 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 7 check | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 rather | fixed |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 9 rather | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 check | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 family | case |
| 20 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 family | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 someone | case |
| 22 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cleverness | punct |
| 24 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 family | conj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 feelings | cc |
| 26 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 family | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 check | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | check | infinitive | you not said here | together property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not make | infinitive | you not said here | WRONG | about someone's family and cleverness or feelings | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:031-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend.lesson:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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