Our street: who parked where and who won what, sentence 21

An ambulance outside a house tells you someone needed help, not who or why; offer help, not guesses.

Who acts: ambulance, someone · What happens: tell, need, offer · To what, where: you, help · 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 (ambulance, someone), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ambulance	det
2	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tells	nsubj
3	outside	outside	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ambulance	nmod
6	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tells	iobj
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 needed	nsubj
9	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	ccomp
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 needed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 who	advmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 someone	acl:relcl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 why	cc
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 who	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
17	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 tells	parataxis
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 offer	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guesses	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 guesses	advmod
21	guesses	guess	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 help	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a ambulance outside a house		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	need	past	someone	help		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
3	offer	infinitive		help and guesses		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent help=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:041-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what.lesson:21.

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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