Birthday parties, sentence 17
A girl in Leeds was not invited to a party and everyone talked about it at school; she felt left out for weeks, and the next year the class agreed to give invitations out of school.
Who acts: everyone, girl, class · What happens: not invite, talk, feel, leave out, agree, give · To what, where: girl, school, invitations
This is a sentence of the lesson «Birthday parties» 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 (everyone, girl, class), 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 | 7 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 invited | advmod |
| 7 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 party | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 party | det |
| 10 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 invited | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 talked | cc |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 talked | nsubj |
| 13 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 talked | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 school | case |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 talked | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | parataxis |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 felt | xcomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 left | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 weeks | case |
| 24 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 left | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 agreed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 agreed | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 year | det |
| 28 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 year | amod |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 agreed | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 class | det |
| 31 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 agreed | nsubj |
| 32 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 give | mark |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 agreed | xcomp |
| 35 | invitations | invitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 give | obj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 school | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 school | case |
| 38 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 give | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not invite | past · passive | a girl in Leeds | to a party | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | talk | past | everyone | school | about party | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | |||
| 3 | feel | past | girl | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave out | participle | girl not said here | week | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | past | the class | year | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the class not said here | invitations | school | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme |
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:130-birthday-parties.lesson:17.
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 ×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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