Building tension and suspense, sentence 6

Sam from Boston knew the secret: when his mum called his ghost story "wicked scary" ("wicked" means very in New England), he said, "I didn't say what the noise was."

Who acts: Sam, mum, wicked, noise · What happens: know, call, mean, say, not say, be · To what, where: secret, ghost story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Building tension and suspense» 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 (Sam, mum, wicked, noise), 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Boston	case
3	Boston	Boston	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Sam	nmod
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 secret	det
6	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 called	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mum	nmod:poss
10	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 story	nmod:poss
13	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 story	compound
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 scary	punct
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scary	amod
17	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 story	appos
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 scary	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 wicked	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 wicked	punct
21	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 means	nsubj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 wicked	punct
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 called	parataxis
24	very	very	ADV	_	27 England	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 England	case
26	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 England	compound
27	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 means	obl
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 means	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 say	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 say	aux
36	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 say	advmod
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 say	ccomp
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 noise	det
40	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 what	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 what	cop
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Sam from Boston	the secret		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus
2	call speech: assert	past	Sam's mum	Sam's ghost story		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	mean	present	wicked		in New England	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in england=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	Sam			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not say speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	Sam			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a in a quote	past	the noise			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:042-building-tension-and-suspense.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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