How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more, sentence 3
We can learn about a friend's customs with respect, ask what helps, and never laugh at them; our own family may do things differently, and that is fine.
Who acts: We, own family, that · What happens: learn, ask, help, not laugh, do, be · To what, where: things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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 (We, own family, that), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 learn | aux |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 customs | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 customs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 friend | case |
| 8 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learn | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 respect | case |
| 10 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learn | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learn | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 helps | nsubj |
| 14 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 laugh | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 laugh | cc |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 laugh | advmod |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ask | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laugh | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 family | amod |
| 24 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 learn | parataxis |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 do | obj |
| 28 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 26 do | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fine | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 fine | cc |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 fine | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fine | cop |
| 33 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 learn | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | can | We | about a friend's customs; with respect | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about custom=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | We not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not laugh | infinitive | We not said here | at customs = custom | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | may | our own family | things | differently property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | is | present | that | fine property | tree rules |
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:065-how-other-people-remember-dia-de-los-muertos-qingming-and-more.lesson:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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