Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 4
Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold.
Who acts: Grandad, gravy · What happens: argue, go · To what, where: Christmas dinner
This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» 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 (Grandad, gravy), 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 | Scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scene | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dinner | case |
| 4 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dinner | compound |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 argue | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Leeds | case |
| 7 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dinner | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Grandad | punct |
| 9 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 argue | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Auntie | cc |
| 11 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Grandad | conj |
| 12 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Auntie | flat |
| 13 | argue | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scene | appos |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 government | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 government | det |
| 16 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 argue | obl |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 goes | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gravy | det |
| 19 | gravy | gravy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goes | nsubj |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 argue | advcl |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 goes | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scene | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue speech: disagree | present | Grandad and Auntie | Christmas dinner in Leeds | about the government | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about government=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | present | the gravy | cold property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:4.
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.
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