Moving house and renting a home, sentence 5
Every Saturday the kids race to tidy their rooms before strangers come for a viewing, and weeks later Mum bursts in: "We've had an offer, but it's subject to survey!"
Who acts: kids, strangers, Mum, We, offer · What happens: race, tidy, come, burst in, have, be · To what, where: rooms, offer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Moving house and renting a home» of the adult life 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 (kids, strangers, Mum, We), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Saturday | det |
| 2 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 race | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kids | det |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 race | nsubj |
| 5 | race | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tidy | mark |
| 7 | tidy | tidy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 race | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tidy | obj |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 11 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | nsubj |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tidy | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 viewing | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 viewing | det |
| 15 | viewing | viewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bursts | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bursts | cc |
| 18 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 later | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 bursts | advmod |
| 20 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 bursts | nsubj |
| 21 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 race | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 bursts | compound:prt |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 26 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | aux |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 bursts | parataxis |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 offer | det |
| 29 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 subject | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 subject | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 subject | nsubj |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 subject | cop |
| 34 | subject | subject | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 had | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 survey | case |
| 36 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 subject | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 race | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 race | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race | present | the kids | saturday | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tidy | to-infinitive | the kids not said here | kids's rooms | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | present | strangers | for a viewing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst in | present | Mum | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present · perfect | We | a offer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | offer | to survey; subject 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:adult-life:010-moving-house-and-renting-a-home.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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