Where money comes from, sentence 3
Picture a terraced house in Manchester on the last Friday of the month: Mum checks her phone, smiles "It's payday, let's get a takeaway", and the kids cheer, because all week the answer to treats was "wait till payday".
Who acts: you, Mum, phone, 's, kids, answer · What happens: picture, terrace, check, smile, be, let · To what, where: terraced house, Manchester, phone, payday, 's, takeaway · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Where money comes from» 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 (you, Mum, phone, 's), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | terraced | terrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Manchester | case |
| 6 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Friday | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Friday | det |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Friday | amod |
| 10 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 month | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 month | det |
| 13 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Friday | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 checks | punct |
| 15 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 checks | nsubj |
| 16 | checks | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 phone | nmod:poss |
| 18 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 checks | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smiles | punct |
| 20 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 checks | conj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 payday | punct |
| 22 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 payday | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 payday | cop |
| 24 | payday | payday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 smiles | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 checks | punct |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 27 | 's | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 let | obj |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 takeaway | det |
| 30 | takeaway | takeaway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cheer | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 cheer | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kids | det |
| 35 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cheer | nsubj |
| 36 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 checks | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 week | punct |
| 38 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 47 wait | mark |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 week | det |
| 40 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 answer | det |
| 42 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wait | nsubj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 treats | case |
| 44 | treats | treat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 answer | nmod |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 wait | cop |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 wait | punct |
| 47 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 48 | till | till | ADP | _ | 49 payday | case |
| 49 | payday | payday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 wait | obl |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 wait | punct |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a terraced house | Manchester | friday | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent house=Theme clause=Attribute | ||
| 2 | terrace | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | check | present | Mum | Mum's phone | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smile | present | Mum not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | phone | payday | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | 's | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | infinitive | 's not said here | a takeaway | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer takeaway=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | cheer | present | the kids | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | past | the answer to treats | till payday; week | wait 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:005-where-money-comes-from.lesson:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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