Arguing politely and never calling names, sentence 9
Saying "I don't know yet, I need to learn more" is honest, and it is fine to wait, read and listen before deciding.
Who acts: I, Saying · What happens: say, not know, need, learn, be, wait · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Arguing politely and never calling names» 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 (I, Saying), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 honest | csubj |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 learn | mark |
| 12 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 need | xcomp |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 learn | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 honest | cop |
| 16 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fine | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fine | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fine | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fine | cop |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 honest | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 wait | mark |
| 23 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fine | csubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 read | punct |
| 25 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wait | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 listen | cc |
| 27 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wait | conj |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 deciding | mark |
| 29 | deciding | decide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 listen | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 honest | 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 | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | I | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | learn not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | more | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Saying | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | present | Saying not said here | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wait | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | read | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | listen | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | decide | gerund | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:politics:039-arguing-politely-and-never-calling-names.lesson:9.
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 ×3. 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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