Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell, sentence 6
Hearing how important he is, Pau Amma laughs and threatens to go out seven times a day.
Who acts: Pau, sea · What happens: hear, be, laugh, threaten, go out · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Crab that Played with the Sea, part 2: Pau Amma loses his shell» of the books 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 (Pau, sea), 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 laughs | advcl |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 important | advmod |
| 3 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hearing | ccomp |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 important | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 important | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughs | punct |
| 7 | Pau | Pau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 laughs | nsubj |
| 8 | Amma | Amma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pau | flat |
| 9 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threatens | cc |
| 11 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughs | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 threatens | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 go | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | Pau not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | sea | important property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | present | Pau | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | threaten | present | Pau not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pau not said here | time | out property | vn interact-36.6 «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:books:091-justso-crab-2-pau-amma-loses-his-shell.lesson:6.
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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