Looking after yourself and a home, sentence 4

In her first week she turns all her white shirts pink, eats toast for tea three nights running and rings her mum to ask how to boil an egg.

Who acts: cousin, three nights · What happens: turn, eat, run, ring, ask, boil · To what, where: white shirts, toast, mum, egg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looking after yourself and a home» 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 (cousin, three nights), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 week	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 week	nmod:poss
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 week	amod
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	obl
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turns	nsubj
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 shirts	det:predet
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shirts	nmod:poss
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shirts	amod
10	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turns	obj
11	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turns	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eats	punct
13	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turns	conj
14	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eats	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 tea	case
16	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eats	obl
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 nights	nummod
18	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eats	obl:unmarked
19	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 nights	acl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rings	cc
21	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 turns	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mum	nmod:poss
23	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rings	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ask	mark
25	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 rings	advcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 boil	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 boil	mark
28	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ask	ccomp
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 egg	det
30	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 boil	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turns	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	cousin	cousin's white shirts	week	pink property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme
2	eat	present	cousin not said here	toast	night	for tea	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toast=Patient
3	run	gerund	three nights not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ring	present	cousin not said here	cousin's mum			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	cousin not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	boil not said to happen	to-infinitive		a egg			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

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:038-looking-after-yourself-and-a-home.lesson:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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