Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much, sentence 19

Sometimes we think we were left out on purpose when it was a mistake; asking is better than assuming the worst.

Who acts: we, purpose, asking · What happens: think, leave out, be, ask, assume · To what, where: we, purpose, mistake, worst · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» of the reflection 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 (we, purpose, asking), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 think	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 think	ccomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 left	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 purpose	case
9	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 mistake	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mistake	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mistake	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mistake	det
14	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
16	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 better	csubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 think	parataxis
19	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 assuming	mark
20	assuming	assume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 better	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 worst	det
22	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 assuming	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	we			sometimes property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	leave out	past · passive		we	purpose		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is a	past	purpose	a mistake			tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	gerund					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	asking			good property	tree rules
6	assume	gerund	asking not said here	the worst			vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bad=Theme

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:reflection:022-lonely-and-different-accents-big-brothers-and-being-too-much.lesson:19.

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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