Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 6
Scene: on a Saturday in Toronto, Gran heads off to her shift at the charity shop, your cousin texts asking you to sponsor her 5k run for the hospice, and outside the station a man in a sleeping bag asks for spare change.
Who acts: Gran, cousin, man · What happens: head off, text, ask, sponsor, shift, run · To what, where: you, k run, charity shop
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bad news, protests and helping others» 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 (Gran, cousin, man), 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 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 Saturday | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Saturday | det |
| 5 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heads | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Toronto | case |
| 7 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Saturday | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heads | punct |
| 9 | Gran | Gran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 heads | nsubj |
| 10 | heads | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scene | appos |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 heads | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shift | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shift | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heads | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 shop | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shop | det |
| 17 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shop | compound |
| 18 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shift | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 texts | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 texts | nsubj |
| 22 | texts | text | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 heads | conj |
| 23 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 texts | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 asking | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sponsor | mark |
| 26 | sponsor | sponsor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 asking | xcomp |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 run | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 k | compound |
| 29 | k | thousand | NUM | Abbr=Yes NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 run | nummod |
| 30 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sponsor | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 hospice | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hospice | det |
| 33 | hospice | hospice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 run | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 asks | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 asks | cc |
| 36 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 38 station | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 station | det |
| 38 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 asks | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 asks | nsubj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 bag | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 bag | det |
| 43 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bag | compound |
| 44 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 man | nmod |
| 45 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 heads | conj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 change | case |
| 47 | spare | spare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 change | amod |
| 48 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 asks | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scene | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | head off | present | Gran | saturday | to Gran's shift at the charity shop | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | text | present | your cousin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | your cousin not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sponsor not said to happen | to-infinitive | your cousin not said here | Gran's k run | for the hospice | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | a man in a sleeping bag | outside the station; for spare change | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | shift | Gran | the charity shop | nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent at=place | |||||
| 7 | run | Gran | for the hospice | nom run «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:6.
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. 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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