Relative clauses, sentence 6
That is her dialect, the way people speak where she lives, and it isn't wrong at home; in standard English, for school writing, it is «the girl who helped me».
Who acts: That, way people, clause, race, girl · What happens: be, speak, live, not be, help · To what, where: dialect, home, girl, standard English, clause · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Relative clauses» 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 (That, way people, clause, race), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 dialect | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dialect | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dialect | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 speak | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 people | compound |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 speak | nsubj |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dialect | conj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 lives | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lives | nsubj |
| 12 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 speak | advcl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrong | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wrong | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wrong | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wrong | cop |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 wrong | advmod |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dialect | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wrong | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 girl | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 English | case |
| 23 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 English | amod |
| 24 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 girl | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 English | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 writing | case |
| 27 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 writing | compound |
| 28 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 girl | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 writing | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 girl | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 girl | cop |
| 32 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 girl | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 girl | det |
| 34 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wrong | parataxis |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 helped | nsubj |
| 36 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 girl | acl:relcl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 helped | obj |
| 38 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 girl | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dialect | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | clause's dialect | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | way people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | present | clause | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | race | home | wrong property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | race | the girl | standard English | for school writing | tree rules | ||
| 6 | help in a quote | past | the girl | a clause = clause | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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:030-relative-clauses.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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