Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 5

By teatime she says: «They're selling up, sign going up any day, they've been arguing for months.» The tape measure was real.

Who acts: Nan, clue, tape measure · What happens: say, sell up, sign, go up, argue, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» 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 (Nan, clue, tape measure), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 teatime	case
2	teatime	teatime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 selling	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 selling	punct
7	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 selling	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 selling	aux
9	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 says	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 selling	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sign	punct
12	sign	sign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 selling	advcl
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sign	xcomp
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 going	compound:prt
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 going	obl:unmarked
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 arguing	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 arguing	nsubj
19	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 arguing	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 arguing	aux
21	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 selling	parataxis
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 months	case
23	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 arguing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 selling	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 measure	det
27	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 measure	compound
28	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 real	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 real	cop
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Nan		by teatime	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sell up in a quote	present · progressive	clue			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	sign in a quote	infinitive	clue not said here			vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go up in a quote	gerund	clue not said here	day		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	argue speech: disagree in a quote	present · perfect · progressive	clue	month		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	the tape measure		real property	tree rules

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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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