Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 5
Understanding someone is not the same as agreeing with them, and "I don't know yet" is an honest answer at any age.
Who acts: Understanding · What happens: understand, not be, agree, not know, be · To what, where: someone, honest answer, age · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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 (Understanding), 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 | Understanding | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 same | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Understanding | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 same | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 same | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 agreeing | mark |
| 8 | agreeing | agree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 same | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 agreeing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 answer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 answer | cc |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 answer | csubj |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 know | advmod |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 answer | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 answer | det |
| 22 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 answer | amod |
| 23 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 same | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 age | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 age | det |
| 26 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 answer | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 same | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | gerund | someone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | Understanding | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | gerund | Understanding not said here | with tricks = trick | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Understanding | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | be speech: assert | present | Understanding not said here | a honest answer | at any age | 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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:5.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
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