Police, courts and prison, sentence 2
Picture a week in Birmingham: a speeding ticket arrives with a photo of Dad's car, Mum gets a letter saying she must do jury service, and the neighbours are burgled while they are on holiday.
Who acts: you, speeding ticket, Mum, letter, neighbours · What happens: picture, arrive, get, say, do, burgle · To what, where: Birmingham, letter, jury service, neighbours, holiday · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Police, courts and prison» 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, speeding ticket, Mum, letter), 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 week | det |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Birmingham | case |
| 5 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrives | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ticket | det |
| 8 | speeding | speeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ticket | compound |
| 9 | ticket | ticket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrives | nsubj |
| 10 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 photo | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 photo | det |
| 13 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrives | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 car | case |
| 15 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 car | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Dad | case |
| 17 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 photo | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gets | punct |
| 19 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gets | nsubj |
| 20 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 letter | det |
| 22 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gets | obj |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 letter | acl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 27 | jury | jury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 service | compound |
| 28 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 do | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 burgled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 burgled | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 neighbours | det |
| 32 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 burgled | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 burgled | aux:pass |
| 34 | burgled | burgle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 gets | conj |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 holiday | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 holiday | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 holiday | cop |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 holiday | case |
| 39 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 burgled | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | 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 | Birmingham | week | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | arrive | present | a speeding ticket | with a photo of Dad's car | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | present | Mum | a letter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer letter=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | a letter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | must | Mum | jury service | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | burgle | present · passive | the neighbours | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 7 | is | present | neighbours = neighbour | holiday | 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:030-police-courts-and-prison.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): 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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