Grown-ups who argue and make up, sentence 2
Picture a house in Melbourne: you hear raised voices downstairs after bedtime, next morning Mum says "Tell your father his breakfast's ready", and that evening Dad walks in with flowers and an awkward grin.
Who acts: you, Mum, breakfast, Dad · What happens: picture, hear, raise, say, tell, be · To what, where: house, Melbourne, raised voices, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups who argue and make up» 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 (you, Mum, breakfast, Dad), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Melbourne | case |
| 5 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 house | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 raised | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 9 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 voices | amod |
| 10 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hear | obj |
| 11 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 8 hear | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 bedtime | case |
| 13 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 morning | amod |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | obl |
| 17 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tell | punct |
| 20 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 says | ccomp |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Tell | obj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 24 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ready | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ready | cop |
| 26 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Tell | ccomp |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Tell | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 walks | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 walks | cc |
| 30 | that | that | DET | PronType=Dem | 31 evening | det |
| 31 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 walks | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 walks | nsubj |
| 33 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 says | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 walks | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 flowers | case |
| 36 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 walks | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 grin | cc |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 grin | det |
| 39 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 grin | amod |
| 40 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flowers | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a house | Melbourne | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | present | you | raised voices | after bedtime | downstairs property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Mum | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Melbourne's breakfast | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | walk in | present | Dad | evening | with flowers and a awkward grin | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:adult-life:014-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up.lesson:2.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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