Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 5
Laughing is allowed, and good laughing is aimed at the idea, never at the person: "Cows drink milk?
Who acts: Cows · What happens: laugh, allow, aim, drink · To what, where: good laughing, idea, milk · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cows), 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 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 aimed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 aimed | cc |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 laughing | amod |
| 7 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aimed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 aimed | aux:pass |
| 9 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 allowed | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 idea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 idea | det |
| 12 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 aimed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 person | punct |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 person | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 person | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 idea | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 drink | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 drink | punct |
| 20 | Cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 drink | nsubj |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | parataxis |
| 22 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drink | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | aim | present · passive | good laughing | the idea and the person | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | present | Cows | milk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
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:5.
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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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