More greetings and making introductions, sentence 4
A girl in Vancouver meets her dad's friend who uses a wheelchair; she greets him just as she greets anyone, and during the long chat she sits down so they are at the same eye level.
Who acts: girl, friend, name · What happens: meet, use, greet, sit down, be · To what, where: friend, wheelchair, Vancouver, anyone, same eye level
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 (girl, friend, name), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meets | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Vancouver | case |
| 4 | Vancouver | Vancouver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dad | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 dad | case |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meets | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 uses | nsubj |
| 11 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 friend | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wheelchair | det |
| 13 | wheelchair | wheelchair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uses | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 greets | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 greets | nsubj |
| 16 | greets | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meets | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 greets | obj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 greets | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 greets | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 greets | nsubj |
| 21 | greets | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 greets | advcl |
| 22 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 greets | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sits | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sits | cc |
| 25 | during | during | ADP | _ | 28 chat | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chat | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 chat | amod |
| 28 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sits | obl |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sits | nsubj |
| 30 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meets | conj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 sits | compound:prt |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 39 level | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 level | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 level | cop |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 level | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 level | det |
| 37 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 level | amod |
| 38 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 level | compound |
| 39 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sits | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | a girl in Vancouver | girl's dad's friend | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | use | present | girl's dad's friend | a wheelchair | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelchair=Patient | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | present | girl | Vancouver | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | present | girl | anyone | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit down | present | girl | during the long chat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is | present | name | the same eye level | 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:everyday:125-greetings-and-introductions.lesson:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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