Screens, diets, sofas and late nights, sentence 2

Picture a Tuesday in Toronto: Dad says "No phones at the table" and checks his own under it, Mum skips dessert because she's "being good", and after you go to bed they both watch TV until midnight and yawn all the next day.

Who acts: you, Dad, Mum, Phones · What happens: picture, say, check, skip, be, go · To what, where: phones, table, own, dessert, bed, TV · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» 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, Dad, Mum, Phones), 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 Tuesday	det
3	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Toronto	case
5	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tuesday	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 phones	punct
10	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 phones	det
11	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 says	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 phones	nmod
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 phones	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 checks	cc
17	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 own	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 checks	obj
20	under	under	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 checks	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dessert	punct
23	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skips	nsubj
24	skips	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 checks	parataxis
25	dessert	dessert	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skips	obj
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 good	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 good	nsubj
28	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 good	cop
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 good	punct
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 good	cop
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skips	advcl
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 good	punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 watch	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 watch	cc
35	after	after	SCONJ	_	37 go	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
37	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 watch	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 bed	case
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 watch	nsubj
41	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	43 TV	det
42	watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
43	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 watch	obj
44	until	until	ADP	_	45 midnight	case
45	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 watch	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 yawn	cc
47	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 watch	conj
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 day	det:predet
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 day	det
50	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 day	amod
51	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 yawn	obl:unmarked
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here			tuesday		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	Dad	no phones	the table			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent phone=Topic
3	check	present	Dad not said here	Dad's own	table			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme
4	skip	present	Mum	dessert				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dessert=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	Mum				good property	tree rules
6	go	present	you		bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
7	watch	present	Phones = phone	both TV		midnight		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme
8	yawn	present	Phones = phone not said here			day		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:029-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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