Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa, sentence 5
Mum laughs too, then says, "Ah, I shouldn't laugh, really.
Who acts: Mum, I · What happens: laugh, say, not laugh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast and chat shows: celebrity gossip on the sofa» 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 (Mum, I), 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 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughs | nsubj |
| 2 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 laughs | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 says | advmod |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 laugh | punct |
| 9 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 14 laugh | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ah | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 laugh | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 laugh | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 laugh | advmod |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 really | punct |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 laugh | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | Mum | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not laugh in a quote | should | I | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:053-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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