Bad news, protests and helping others, sentence 7
Mum gives him a smile and buys him a coffee.
Who acts: Mum · What happens: give, buys · To what, where: smile, man, coffee
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 (Mum), 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 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | nsubj |
| 2 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gives | iobj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 smile | det |
| 5 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gives | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 buys | cc |
| 7 | buys | buys | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gives | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 buys | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 coffee | det |
| 10 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buys | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Mum | a smile | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient smile=Theme | |||
| 2 | buys | present | Mum not said here | a coffee | man | 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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:7.
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.
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