Shifts, nights and other ways of working, sentence 2
Picture a house in Cork at lunchtime on a Saturday: the kids tiptoe past the bedroom door, whispering "Shh, Dad's on nights", because he drove a delivery lorry until six this morning.
Who acts: you, kids, Dad · What happens: picture, tiptoe, whisper, be, drive · To what, where: house, Cork, bedroom door, delivery lorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Shifts, nights and other ways of working» 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, kids, 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 Cork | case |
| 5 | Cork | Cork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 house | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 lunchtime | case |
| 7 | lunchtime | lunchtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Saturday | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Saturday | det |
| 10 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lunchtime | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 tiptoe | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kids | det |
| 13 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tiptoe | nsubj |
| 14 | tiptoe | tiptoe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 15 | past | past | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | compound |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tiptoe | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 whispering | punct |
| 20 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 tiptoe | advcl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Shh | punct |
| 22 | Shh | Shh | INTJ | _ | 20 whispering | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dad | punct |
| 24 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 nights | nsubj |
| 25 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 nights | cop |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 nights | case |
| 27 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 whispering | obl |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 nights | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 drove | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 drove | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 drove | nsubj |
| 32 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tiptoe | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lorry | det |
| 34 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lorry | compound |
| 35 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drove | obj |
| 36 | until | until | ADP | _ | 37 six | case |
| 37 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 drove | obl |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 morning | det |
| 39 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drove | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a house | Cork | at lunchtime on a Saturday | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||
| 2 | tiptoe | present | the kids | the bedroom door | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past door=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | the kids not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Dad | on nights | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | drive | past | Dad | a delivery lorry | until six; morning | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=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:002-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working.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 ×4. 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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