Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 5
Scene: in Auckland, Dad stands over three bins holding a yoghurt pot: «Which one does this go in?» Then he finds a note on the car: «You've parked across my drive AGAIN!» He grumbles, then knocks next door and sorts it out in two minutes.
Who acts: Dad, this, Scene, You, my · What happens: stand, hold, go in, find, park, grumble · To what, where: Auckland, yoghurt pot, one, note, car, drive · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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 (Dad, this, Scene, You), 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 | 27 finds | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 stands | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Auckland | case |
| 4 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Auckland | punct |
| 6 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | nsubj |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scene | appos |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 bins | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 bins | nummod |
| 10 | bins | bin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stands | obl |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stands | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pot | det |
| 13 | yoghurt | yoghurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pot | compound |
| 14 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 17 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Scene | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scene | punct |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scene | punct |
| 25 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 finds | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 finds | nsubj |
| 27 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 note | det |
| 29 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 finds | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 car | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 car | det |
| 32 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 note | nmod |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 parked | punct |
| 34 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 37 parked | punct |
| 35 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 parked | nsubj |
| 36 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 parked | aux |
| 37 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 finds | parataxis |
| 38 | across | across | ADP | _ | 40 drive | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 drive | nmod:poss |
| 40 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 parked | obl |
| 41 | AGAIN | again | ADV | _ | 37 parked | advmod |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 finds | punct |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 27 finds | punct |
| 44 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 grumbles | nsubj |
| 45 | grumbles | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 finds | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 knocks | punct |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 knocks | advmod |
| 48 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 grumbles | conj |
| 49 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 door | amod |
| 50 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 knocks | obj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 sorts | cc |
| 52 | sorts | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 knocks | conj |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 sorts | obj |
| 54 | out | out | ADP | _ | 52 sorts | compound:prt |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 minutes | case |
| 56 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 minutes | nummod |
| 57 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 sorts | obl |
| 58 | . | . | 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 | stand | present | Dad | Auckland | over three bins | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in auckland=Location | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Dad not said here | a yoghurt pot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in in a quote | present · do-support | this | which one | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | present | Scene | a note | the car | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent note=Attribute clause=Theme | ||
| 5 | park in a quote | present · perfect | You | my drive | again | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | grumble speech: other | present | Dad | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | knock | present | Dad not said here | next door | then | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 8 | sort out | present | Dad not said here | door | minute | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 9 | drive in a quote | my | nom drive «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:5.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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