Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice, sentence 1
Ollie's mate has started wearing a hat he thinks gives him "rizz" (charm, being cool), and everyone laughs behind his back; a quiet, kind word from Ollie is better than letting him be laughed at.
Who acts: mate, charm, everyone, quiet kind word · What happens: start, wear, think, give, be, laugh · To what, where: hat, rizz, mate, back · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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 (mate, charm, everyone, quiet kind word), 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 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ollie | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | aux |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 started | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hat | det |
| 8 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wearing | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thinks | nsubj |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hat | acl:relcl |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thinks | ccomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gives | iobj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 rizz | punct |
| 14 | rizz | rizz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 rizz | punct |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 charm | punct |
| 17 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rizz | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cool | punct |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 cool | cop |
| 20 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 charm | acl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 cool | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 laughs | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 laughs | cc |
| 24 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 laughs | nsubj |
| 25 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | conj |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 back | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 back | nmod:poss |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laughs | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 quiet | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 word | det |
| 31 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 word | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 word | punct |
| 33 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 word | amod |
| 34 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 better | nsubj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Ollie | case |
| 36 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 word | nmod |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 better | cop |
| 38 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 started | parataxis |
| 39 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 40 letting | mark |
| 40 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 better | advcl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 letting | obj |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 laughed | aux:pass |
| 43 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 letting | xcomp |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 laughed | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present · perfect | Ollie's mate | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | Ollie's mate not said here | a hat | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | mate | a hat not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent hat=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | present | rizz | mate | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rizz=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | charm not said here | cool property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | laugh | present | everyone | mate's back | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | present | a quiet kind word from Ollie | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | let | gerund | a quiet kind word from Ollie not said here | mate | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | laugh | infinitive · passive | mate not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
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:084-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice.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): R7-rel-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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