Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 3
Picture a café in Dublin: Mum holds the menu at arm's length and laughs, "I can't read this without my glasses," while Dad groans getting up from his chair, "It's my bad back again."
Who acts: you, Mum, I, Dad, menu · What happens: picture, hold, laugh, not read, groan, get up · To what, where: café, Dublin, menu, length, this, chair
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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, I, 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 café | det |
| 3 | café | café | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Dublin | case |
| 5 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 café | nmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 holds | punct |
| 7 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holds | nsubj |
| 8 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 menu | det |
| 10 | menu | menu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holds | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 length | case |
| 12 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 length | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 arm | case |
| 14 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holds | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughs | cc |
| 16 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 holds | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 holds | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 read | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 read | nsubj |
| 20 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 read | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 read | advmod |
| 22 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 holds | conj |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 read | obj |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 glasses | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 glasses | nmod:poss |
| 26 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 read | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 holds | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 holds | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 groans | mark |
| 30 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 groans | nsubj |
| 31 | groans | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 holds | advcl |
| 32 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 groans | advcl |
| 33 | up | up | ADV | _ | 32 getting | advmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 chair | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 chair | nmod:poss |
| 36 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 getting | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 holds | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 holds | punct |
| 39 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 back | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 back | cop |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 back | nmod:poss |
| 42 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 back | amod |
| 43 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holds | conj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 back | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | 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 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a café | Dublin | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent café=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | present | Mum | the menu | arm's length | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent menu=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 3 | laugh | present | Mum not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not read in a quote | can | I | this | without my glasses | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 5 | groan | present | Dad | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | get up | gerund | Dad not said here | Dad's chair | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from chair=Destination | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | menu | my bad back | again | 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:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.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): 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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