When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 16
A good teacher who isn't sure says "I'll check", and thanks the pupil who asked.
Who acts: good teacher, pupil · What happens: not be, say, check, thank, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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 (good teacher, pupil), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teacher | amod |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | cop |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sure | advmod |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 check | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 check | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 check | aux |
| 12 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 check | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thanks | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thanks | cc |
| 16 | thanks | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pupil | det |
| 18 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thanks | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 pupil | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a good teacher | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a good teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | check in a quote | future | a good teacher = teacher | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | present | the pupil | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | the pupil | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:16.
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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