Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, sentence 18

Opening an umbrella indoors can knock a lamp or poke an eye, so care is sensible, but it cannot make anything happen a week later.

Who acts: Opening, care, anything · What happens: open, knock, poke, be, not make, not happen · To what, where: umbrella, lamp, eye, anything

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (Opening, care, anything), 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	Opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 knock	csubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 umbrella	det
3	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Opening	obj
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	1 Opening	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 knock	aux
6	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knock	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 poke	cc
10	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 knock	conj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eye	det
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poke	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sensible	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 sensible	advmod
15	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sensible	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sensible	cop
17	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knock	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 make	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 make	advmod
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 knock	conj
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 make	obj
25	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 week	det
27	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 later	obl:unmarked
28	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 happen	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knock	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		a umbrella	indoors property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location umbrella=Theme
2	knock	can	Opening	a lamp		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient
3	poke	infinitive	Opening not said here	a eye		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	is	present	care		sensible property	tree rules
5	not make	can	care	anything		tree rules
6	not happen	infinitive	anything not said here		late property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:18.

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 ×2. 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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