What people leave behind, sentence 2
Picture a Saturday in Leeds: Mum, Auntie Sue and you are in Nan's kitchen with cardboard boxes, wrapping her teacups in newspaper, laughing at her old hats and then suddenly crying over a birthday card she kept.
Who acts: you, Nan · What happens: picture, be, wrap, laugh, cry, keep · To what, where: Leeds, kitchen, teacups, newspaper, old hats, birthday card
This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» 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, Nan), 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 Saturday | det |
| 3 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Leeds | case |
| 5 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mum | punct |
| 7 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Leeds | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Auntie | punct |
| 9 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mum | conj |
| 10 | Sue | Sue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Auntie | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kitchen | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 kitchen | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 kitchen | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 kitchen | case |
| 15 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Nan | case |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 boxes | case |
| 19 | cardboard | cardboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boxes | compound |
| 20 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kitchen | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wrapping | punct |
| 22 | wrapping | wrap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Picture | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 teacups | nmod:poss |
| 24 | teacups | teacup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wrapping | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 newspaper | case |
| 26 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wrapping | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laughing | punct |
| 28 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 wrapping | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 hats | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hats | nmod:poss |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 hats | amod |
| 32 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 laughing | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 crying | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 crying | advmod |
| 35 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 36 crying | advmod |
| 36 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 laughing | conj |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 card | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 card | det |
| 39 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 card | compound |
| 40 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 crying | obl |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 kept | nsubj |
| 42 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 card | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | Leeds and Mum and Auntie | saturday | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | Nan's kitchen | with cardboard boxes | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wrap | gerund | you not said here | Nan's teacups | newspaper | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent teacup=Theme in newspaper=Destination | |||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | you not said here | Nan's old hats | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | you not said here | a birthday card | then | suddenly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over card=Location | ||
| 6 | keep | past | Nan | a birthday card not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=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:026-what-people-leave-behind.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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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