The environment, sentence 4
For a child today this means switching off lights, walking when you can, sharing things fairly and speaking up for nature politely and bravely.
Who acts: this · What happens: mean, switch off, walk, share, speak up · To what, where: lights, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» 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 (this), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 child | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 4 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 child | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | switching | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 switching | compound:prt |
| 9 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 switching | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walking | punct |
| 11 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 switching | conj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 can | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 walking | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sharing | punct |
| 16 | sharing | share | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 switching | conj |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sharing | obj |
| 18 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 16 sharing | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 speaking | cc |
| 20 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 switching | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 speaking | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 nature | case |
| 23 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speaking | obl |
| 24 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 20 speaking | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bravely | cc |
| 26 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 24 politely | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | for a child today | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | switch off | gerund | lights | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | |||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | share | gerund | things | fairly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak up speech: other | gerund | for nature; politely property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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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