Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 12

In "Before Mia ate breakfast, she fed the cat", feeding the cat comes first, even though breakfast is mentioned first.

Who acts: Mia, feeding · What happens: eat, feed, come, mention · To what, where: breakfast, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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 (Mia, feeding), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 breakfast	case
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	Before	before	ADP	_	5 ate	mark
4	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	advcl
6	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fed	nsubj
9	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 comes	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fed	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 feeding	punct
14	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 comes	csubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 feeding	obj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 comes	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
20	even	even	ADV	_	24 mentioned	advmod
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 mentioned	mark
22	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mentioned	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 mentioned	aux:pass
24	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 comes	advcl
25	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 mentioned	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	Mia	breakfast			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
2	feed in a quote	past	Mia		the cat		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
3	feed	gerund			the cat		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient
4	come	present	feeding			first property	tree rules
5	mention speech: other	present · passive		breakfast		first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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