Life is precious: wonder and gratitude, sentence 7
Studies suggest that people who often give thanks tend to feel happier.
Who acts: Studies, people · What happens: suggest, give, tend, feel · To what, where: thanks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Life is precious: wonder and gratitude» 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 (Studies, people), 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 | Studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 suggest | nsubj |
| 2 | suggest | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 tend | mark |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tend | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 give | advmod |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 people | acl:relcl |
| 8 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | tend | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 suggest | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 feel | mark |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tend | xcomp |
| 12 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 feel | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suggest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | present | Studies | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | present | people | thanks | often property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | |||
| 3 | tend | present | people | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | people not said here | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:054-life-is-precious-wonder-and-gratitude.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): 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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