Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 3

In Manchester, Mum sits with the phone at 7.59, ready to ring the surgery the second it opens.

Who acts: Mum, surgery · What happens: sit, ring, open · To what, where: Manchester, surgery, second

This is a sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» 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 (Mum, surgery), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Manchester	case
2	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Manchester	punct
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	nsubj
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 phone	det
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 7.59	case
10	7.59	7.59	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 sits	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 7.59	punct
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sits	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 ring	mark
14	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ready	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 surgery	det
16	surgery	surgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ring	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 second	det
18	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ring	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 opens	nsubj
20	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 second	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Mum		Manchester		with the phone; at 7.59	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in manchester=Location
2	ring	to-infinitive	Mum not said here	the surgery		second		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location surgery=Theme
3	open	present	surgery	the second not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location second=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:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:3.

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): R7-rel-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.

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