More greetings and making introductions, sentence 16
A boy in Ohio told an online gamer his full name, school and age when the gamer introduced himself; the gamer, an adult, began messaging him at school times, and his parents had to report it.
Who acts: boy, gamer, parents · What happens: tell, introduce, begin, message, have, report · To what, where: full name, online gamer, gamer, school · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «More greetings and making introductions» of the everyday 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 (boy, gamer, parents), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gamer | det |
| 7 | online | online | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gamer | amod |
| 8 | gamer | gamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 name | amod |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 school | punct |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 age | cc |
| 15 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | conj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 introduced | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gamer | det |
| 18 | gamer | gamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 introduced | nsubj |
| 19 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | advcl |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 introduced | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gamer | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gamer | det |
| 23 | gamer | gamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 began | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 adult | punct |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 adult | det |
| 26 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gamer | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 began | punct |
| 28 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 29 | messaging | message | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 began | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 messaging | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 times | case |
| 32 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 times | compound |
| 33 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 messaging | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 had | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 had | cc |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 parents | nmod:poss |
| 37 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 began | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 report | mark |
| 40 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 had | xcomp |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 report | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a boy in Ohio | boy's full name and school and age | a online gamer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gamer=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 2 | introduce | past | the gamer | gamer | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the gamer | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | message | gerund | the gamer not said here | gamer | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past | boy's parents | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | report | to-infinitive | boy's parents not said here | school | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 7 | name | boy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:16.
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. 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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