When grown-ups are tired or worried, sentence 2
Scene: in Melbourne, Dad drops his bag by the door: «I've had a long day.» He is quiet and grumpy until tea, then he tells jokes.
Who acts: Dad, I · What happens: drop, have, be, tell · To what, where: bag, Melbourne, jokes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When grown-ups are tired or worried» 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, I), 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 | _ | 4 Melbourne | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Melbourne | case |
| 4 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 drops | punct |
| 6 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | nsubj |
| 7 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scene | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 16 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | aux |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 drops | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drops | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 23 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 quiet | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 quiet | cop |
| 25 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Scene | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 grumpy | cc |
| 27 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 quiet | conj |
| 28 | until | until | ADP | _ | 29 tea | case |
| 29 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quiet | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tells | punct |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 tells | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 tells | nsubj |
| 33 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 quiet | conj |
| 34 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 tells | obj |
| 35 | . | . | 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 | drop | present | Dad | Dad's bag | Melbourne | by the door | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have in a quote | present · perfect | I | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Dad | until tea | quiet property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | Dad not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | present | Dad | jokes | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent joke=Recipient |
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:034-when-grown-ups-are-tired-or-worried.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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