School councils and class reps, sentence 7
A short speech with three clear ideas said slowly works better than lots of fast ones, and grown-up politicians do the same.
Who acts: short speech, politicians · What happens: say, work, grow up, do · To what, where: three clear ideas, same · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «School councils and class reps» 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 (short speech, politicians), 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 speech | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speech | amod |
| 3 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ideas | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ideas | nummod |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ideas | amod |
| 7 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 speech | nmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ideas | acl |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 works | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 lots | case |
| 13 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 works | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 ones | case |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ones | amod |
| 16 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lots | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 grown | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 grown | cc |
| 19 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 works | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 up | punct |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 grown | compound:prt |
| 22 | politicians | politician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 do | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 grown | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 do | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | three clear ideas not said here | slowly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | work | present | a short speech with three clear ideas | than lots of fast ones; well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | a short speech with three clear ideas not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | present | politicians | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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:037-school-councils-and-class-reps.lesson:7.
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): R8-pos-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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