Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 20
Police at a door can mean a burglary, an accident, bad news or someone needing help; it never proves that a person did wrong.
Who acts: Police, help, person · What happens: mean, need, not prove, do · To what, where: burglary, help
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 (Police, help, person), 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 | Police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Police | nmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 burglary | det |
| 8 | burglary | burglary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accident | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 accident | det |
| 11 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burglary | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 news | punct |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 news | amod |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burglary | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 someone | cc |
| 16 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 burglary | conj |
| 17 | needing | need | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 someone | acl |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needing | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 proves | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 proves | nsubj |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 proves | advmod |
| 22 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 did | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 person | det |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 proves | ccomp |
| 27 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 did | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | can | Police at a door | a burglary and a accident and bad news | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burglary=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need | gerund | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not prove | present | help | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | a person | wrong property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:20.
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): no change. 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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