Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 1
Imagine your friend knocks a vase off the teacher's desk, and the teacher asks the class who did it.
Who acts: you, friend, teacher, class · What happens: imagine, knock, ask, do · To what, where: vase, class, friend
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» of the religion ethics 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 (you, friend, teacher, class), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knocks | nsubj |
| 4 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Imagine | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vase | det |
| 6 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knocks | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 desk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teacher | det |
| 9 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 desk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 teacher | case |
| 11 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knocks | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asks | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asks | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 teacher | det |
| 15 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | nsubj |
| 16 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knocks | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 class | det |
| 18 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asks | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 class | acl:relcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | knock | present | your friend | a vase | off the teacher's desk | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent vase=Patient off desk=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | the teacher | the class | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | do | past | the class | friend | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:1.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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