Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 2
Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper.
Who acts: Vivid example · What happens: hand · To what, where: lumpy orange jumper, Mum, Christmas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» 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 (Vivid example), 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 | Vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 example | amod |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Christmas | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Christmas | case |
| 5 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Dublin | case |
| 7 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Christmas | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Auntie | punct |
| 9 | Auntie | Auntie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Christmas | appos |
| 10 | Siobhan | Siobhan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Auntie | flat |
| 11 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | iobj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 jumper | det |
| 14 | lumpy | lumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 jumper | amod |
| 15 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jumper | compound |
| 16 | jumper | jumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hands | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | present | Vivid example | a lumpy orange jumper | Mum | Christmas in Dublin | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Destination jumper=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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.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, R6-punct-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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