Video calls and visiting a friend's house, sentence 4
A girl in Edinburgh knocks a vase off a shelf at her friend's house; she tells the mum at once and says sorry, and the mum is far less upset than if she had found it hidden.
Who acts: girl, mum · What happens: knock off, tell, say, be, find · To what, where: vase, house, mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Video calls and visiting a friend's house» 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, mum), 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 knocks | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Edinburgh | case |
| 4 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vase | det |
| 7 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocks | obj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 knocks | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shelf | det |
| 10 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocks | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knocks | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tells | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tells | nsubj |
| 18 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 knocks | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mum | det |
| 20 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tells | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | fixed |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 tells | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 says | cc |
| 24 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tells | conj |
| 25 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 24 says | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 upset | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 upset | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mum | det |
| 29 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 upset | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 upset | cop |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 less | advmod |
| 32 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 upset | advmod |
| 33 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knocks | conj |
| 34 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 38 found | mark |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 found | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 found | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 found | aux |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 upset | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 found | obj |
| 40 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 found | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knocks | 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 | knock off | present | a girl in Edinburgh | a vase | girl's friend's house | a shelf obl | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vase=Theme | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | girl | the mum | once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the mum | less, upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | girl | vase | hidden property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:everyday:129-video-calls-and-visiting-friends.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 ×1, 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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