When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 17
A question asked privately, politely and with evidence is far more likely to be welcomed than a public "you're wrong".
Who acts: question, you · What happens: ask, be, welcome · To what, where: question · 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 (question, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 question | acl |
| 4 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 politely | punct |
| 6 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 13 likely | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 likely | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 evidence | case |
| 9 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 likely | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 likely | cop |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 likely | advmod |
| 13 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 welcomed | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 16 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 likely | xcomp |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 public | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 public | det |
| 19 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 welcomed | obl |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 wrong | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 wrong | nsubj |
| 22 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wrong | cop |
| 23 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 welcomed | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 wrong | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 likely | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | a question not said here | privately property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a question | with evidence; likely, politely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | welcome | to-infinitive · passive | a question not said here | than a public | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | wrong 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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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