Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 13

A boy can read every word of a story and still not know what happened, so grown-ups ask «Who was in it?

Who acts: boy, grown ups · What happens: read, not know, happen, grow, ask, be · To what, where: word, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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 (boy, grown ups), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
11	still	still	ADV	_	13 know	advmod
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 read	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ask	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 ask	advmod
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 ups	amod
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 ups	punct
20	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ask	nsubj
21	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 read	parataxis
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 ask	punct
23	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 it	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 it	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ask	ccomp
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	read	can	a boy	every word of a story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	not know	infinitive	a boy not said here			still	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	past					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	present	grown ups				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	past			word		tree rules
7	word			a story			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:13.

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 ×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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