Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world, sentence 7
Learning about other people's festivals helps us understand our neighbours.
Who acts: us · What happens: learn, help, understand · To what, where: festivals, us, neighbours
This is a sentence of the lesson «Festivals, holidays and traditions in the English-speaking world» 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 (us), 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 | Learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 festivals | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 festivals | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 people | case |
| 6 | festivals | festival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Learning | obj |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 helps | obj |
| 9 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helps | xcomp |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 11 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 understand | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 helps | 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 | learn | gerund | other people's festivals | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Topic | |||||
| 2 | help | present | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | understand | infinitive | us not said here | our neighbours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=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:097-festivals-holidays-traditions.lesson:7.
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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