Prediction: what happens next, sentence 20
A gasp, a scream or a dropped cup are clues that something surprising has happened.
Who acts: gasp, something · What happens: drop, be, happen · To what, where: clues
This is a sentence of the lesson «Prediction: what happens next» 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 (gasp, something), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gasp | det |
| 2 | gasp | gasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clues | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scream | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scream | det |
| 5 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gasp | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 cup | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cup | det |
| 8 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cup | amod |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scream | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 clues | cop |
| 11 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 happened | mark |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 something | amod |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | aux |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 clues | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 clues | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a gasp and a scream or a dropped cup | clues | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | happen | present · perfect | something | clues not said here | 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:english:019-prediction-what-happens-next.lesson:20.
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): 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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