Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 7
Scene: in Toronto, Grandad mutters about «the kids from the flats, always hanging round the shop, up to no good».
Who acts: Grandad, kids · What happens: mutter, hang · To what, where: Toronto, shop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (Grandad, kids), 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 | Scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scene | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Toronto | case |
| 4 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mutters | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mutters | punct |
| 6 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mutters | nsubj |
| 7 | mutters | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Scene | parataxis |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 kids | case |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 kids | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kids | det |
| 11 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mutters | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 flats | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flats | det |
| 14 | flats | flat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kids | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanging | punct |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | _ | 17 hanging | advmod |
| 17 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 kids | acl |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 shop | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shop | det |
| 20 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hanging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanging | punct |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 good | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 up | fixed |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 good | det |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hanging | obl |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 hanging | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scene | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | present | Grandad | Toronto | about the kids from the flats | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kid=Topic | |||
| 2 | hang in a quote | gerund | the kids from the flats not said here | the shop | up no good; always property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round shop=Destination |
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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:7.
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): R5-strong ×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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