Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 12
Drop a pencil instead; it proves the point just fine.
Who acts: you, pencil · What happens: drop, prove · To what, where: pencil, point
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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, pencil), 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 | Drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pencil | det |
| 3 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drop | obj |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Drop | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 proves | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 proves | nsubj |
| 7 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Drop | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 point | det |
| 9 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proves | obj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 fine | advmod |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADV | _ | 7 proves | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | imperative | you not said here | a pencil | instead property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme | |||
| 2 | prove | present | pencil | the point | fine property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=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:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:12.
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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