Bets, dares and silly reasons, sentence 15
Good running shoes can help a little if they fit, but training matters far more for speed.
Who acts: Good running shoes, shoes, training · What happens: help, fit, matter · To what, where: little
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 (Good running shoes, shoes, training), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoes | amod |
| 2 | running | running | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoes | compound |
| 3 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 help | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 fit | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fit | nsubj |
| 10 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 matters | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 matters | cc |
| 13 | training | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 matters | nsubj |
| 14 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | conj |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 matters | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 speed | case |
| 18 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 matters | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | Good running shoes | a little | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | fit a condition, not said to happen | present | shoes = shoe | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | matter | present | training | for speed | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:15.
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): R5-strong ×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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