When the teacher gets it wrong, sentence 18
If a teacher gets cross, it is wise to step back for now and tell a parent calmly later.
Who acts: teacher · What happens: get, be, step back, tell · To what, where: cross, parent · 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 (teacher), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 gets | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wise | advcl |
| 5 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wise | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wise | cop |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 step | mark |
| 11 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wise | csubj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 step | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 now | case |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 step | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 step | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 parent | det |
| 18 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 16 tell | advmod |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 tell | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen | present | a teacher | cross | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | wise property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | step back | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a parent | calmly, late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=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:033-when-the-teacher-gets-it-wrong.lesson:18.
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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