Vocabulary in context, sentence 2
«The children were famished after the long walk.» After a long walk you are hungry, so famished must mean very hungry.
Who acts: you · What happens: famish, be, mean · To what, where: children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vocabulary in context» 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 (you), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 famished | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 famished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 famished | aux:pass |
| 5 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 mean | advcl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 walk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walk | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 walk | amod |
| 9 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 famished | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 famished | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 famished | punct |
| 12 | After | after | ADP | _ | 15 walk | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 walk | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 walk | amod |
| 15 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hungry | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 hungry | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hungry | cop |
| 18 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mean | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 famished | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 famished | advmod |
| 21 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hungry | conj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 mean | aux |
| 23 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 hungry | advmod |
| 25 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mean | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 famished | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | famish in a quote | past · passive | the children | after the long walk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | after a long walk | hungry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | famish | participle | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mean | must | hungry property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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:english:020-vocabulary-in-context.lesson:2.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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