Living well because life is short, sentence 13
«A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full life.
Who acts: good innings, saying · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: saying, cricket, long full life
This is a sentence of the lesson «Living well because life is short» 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 (good innings, saying), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 innings | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 innings | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 innings | amod |
| 4 | innings | inning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saying | nsubj |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 innings | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saying | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 saying | det |
| 8 | saying | say | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cricket | case |
| 10 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saying | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 means | nsubj |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saying | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 life | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 life | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 life | amod |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good innings | a saying | cricket | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | a saying | a long full life | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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:076-living-well-because-life-is-short.lesson:13.
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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