Finding a job and getting on, sentence 2
Picture a flat in Toronto: every evening Mum sits at the laptop sending off applications, gets "no" after "no", and then one Tuesday bursts through the door shouting "I got it!" while the whole family cheers.
Who acts: you, evening Mum, I, whole family · What happens: picture, sit, send off, get, burst, shout · To what, where: flat, Toronto, laptop, applications, door · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding a job and getting on» 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, evening Mum, I, whole family), 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 flat | det |
| 3 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Toronto | case |
| 5 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sits | punct |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Mum | compound |
| 9 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sits | nsubj |
| 10 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 laptop | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 laptop | det |
| 13 | laptop | laptop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sits | obl |
| 14 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sits | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 sending | compound:prt |
| 16 | applications | application | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sending | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gets | punct |
| 18 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 no | punct |
| 20 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 gets | discourse |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 no | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 no | case |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 no | punct |
| 24 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 gets | obl |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 no | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bursts | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bursts | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 bursts | advmod |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Tuesday | nummod |
| 30 | Tuesday | Tuesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 bursts | obl |
| 31 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gets | conj |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 door | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bursts | obl |
| 35 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 bursts | advcl |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 got | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 got | nsubj |
| 38 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 shouting | ccomp |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 got | obj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 38 got | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 got | punct |
| 42 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 46 cheers | mark |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 family | det |
| 44 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 family | amod |
| 45 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cheers | nsubj |
| 46 | cheers | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bursts | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed form=imp, act=request, voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a flat | Toronto | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent flat=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | present | evening Mum | the laptop | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at laptop=Location | ||||
| 3 | send off | gerund | evening Mum not said here | applications | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent application=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | present | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | burst | present | you not said here | the door | then; tuesday | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through door=Location | |||
| 6 | shout speech: express | gerund | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | get in a quote | past | I | flat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | cheer | present | the whole family | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:003-finding-a-job-and-getting-on.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/2/