Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 1
Breath-holding contests are dangerous, so this is a bet to walk away from.
Who acts: holding contests, this · What happens: be, walk away · To what, where: bet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 (holding contests, this), 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 | Breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holding | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Breath | punct |
| 3 | holding | holding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contests | compound |
| 4 | contests | contest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dangerous | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dangerous | cop |
| 6 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bet | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 bet | advmod |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 bet | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bet | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bet | det |
| 12 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dangerous | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 walk | mark |
| 14 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bet | acl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 walk | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 away | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | holding contests | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | a bet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk away | to-infinitive | holding contests not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): 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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