Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 13
Never touch or test an electric fence; you cannot tell by looking whether it is on.
Who acts: you, fence · What happens: not touch, test, not tell, look, be · To what, where: electric fence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, fence), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 touch | advmod |
| 2 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 test | cc |
| 4 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 touch | conj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fence | det |
| 6 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fence | amod |
| 7 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 test | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 tell | advmod |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 touch | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 looking | mark |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 tell | advcl |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 18 on | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 on | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 on | cop |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 looking | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | test | infinitive | you not said here | a electric fence | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | can | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is | present | fence | on 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:world:169-bets-dares-and-silly-reasons.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): 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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