Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 11
Ollie's dad drives a lorry and thinks he can't help, but listening, asking «What happened?
Who acts: dad · What happens: drive, think, not help, listen, ask, happen · To what, where: lorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english 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 (dad), 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 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ollie | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | nsubj |
| 4 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lorry | det |
| 6 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drives | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thinks | cc |
| 8 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 drives | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 help | advmod |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thinks | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 listening | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 listening | cc |
| 15 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 drives | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asking | punct |
| 17 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 listening | advcl |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asking | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 drives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | Ollie's dad | a lorry | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lorry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | Ollie's dad not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not help | can | dad | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | listen | gerund | Ollie's dad not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Ollie's dad not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | happen in a quote | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:11.
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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