Active and passive voice, modal verbs, sentence 12

"Got" passives like "The window got broke" are informal or dialect; Standard English writes "The window was broken" or, less formally, "got broken".

Who acts: window, Got passives, Standard · What happens: get, be, write, break · To what, where: Got passives · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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 (window, Got passives, Standard), 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	_	2 Got	punct
2	Got	Got	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 passives	compound
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Got	punct
4	passives	passive	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 informal	nsubj
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 got	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passives	acl
10	broke	broke	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 broke	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 informal	cop
13	informal	informal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 dialect	cc
15	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 informal	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 writes	punct
17	Standard	Standard	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 writes	nsubj
18	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Standard	flat
19	writes	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 informal	parataxis
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 broken	punct
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 window	det
22	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broken	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 broken	cop
24	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 writes	ccomp
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 broken	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 got	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 or	punct
28	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 got	advmod
29	formally	formally	ADV	_	28 less	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 less	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 less	punct
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 writes	conj
33	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 broken	conj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 broken	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 informal	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	the window	Got passives not said here	broke property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer passive=Stimulus
2	is	present	Got passives		informal property	tree rules
3	write	present	Standard			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	past	the window		broken property	tree rules
5	get in a quote	past	Standard not said here		less property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	break in a quote	participle	the window not said here			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×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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