Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 17
A new car and builders in the kitchen are facts; «they won the lottery» is a guess made up to explain them.
Who acts: new car, word · What happens: be, win, make up, explain · To what, where: facts, lottery, guess, word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: who parked where and who won what» 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 (new car, word), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 car | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 car | amod |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 facts | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 facts | cc |
| 5 | builders | builder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 car | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kitchen | det |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 builders | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 facts | cop |
| 10 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 facts | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 won | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 won | nsubj |
| 14 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guess | csubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lottery | det |
| 16 | lottery | lottery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 won | obj |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 won | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 guess | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 guess | det |
| 20 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 facts | parataxis |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 guess | acl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 made | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 explain | mark |
| 24 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 explain | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 facts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a new car and builders in the kitchen | facts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win in a quote | past | word | the lottery | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lottery=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a guess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make up | participle | a guess not said here | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:17.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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