Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry, sentence 4
A boy in Brisbane yells at his sister when angry; later he says "Sorry I shouted at you", and he really does stop shouting, so she believes him the next time.
Who acts: boy, friendship · What happens: yell, say, shout, stop, believe · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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, friendship), 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 yells | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brisbane | case |
| 4 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | parataxis |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yells | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 angry | advmod |
| 10 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yells | advcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 says | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 says | nsubj |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sorry | punct |
| 16 | Sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 18 shouted | discourse |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 shouted | nsubj |
| 18 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 shouted | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 shouted | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stop | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stop | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stop | nsubj |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 27 stop | advmod |
| 26 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 stop | aux |
| 27 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 says | ccomp |
| 28 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 stop | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 believes | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 believes | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 believes | nsubj |
| 32 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 says | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 believes | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 35 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 time | amod |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 believes | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | present | a boy in Brisbane | at boy's sister | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sister=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | boy | late property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | boy | at you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stop | present · do-support | boy | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | gerund | boy not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | believe | present | friendship | boy | time | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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:126-goodbye-thanks-and-sorry.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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