Remembering details, sentence 4

Example: a boy in Manchester sees a bike being stolen and says to himself, «tall man, green hoodie, white trainers, rode off towards the park» — then tells a teacher straight away.

Who acts: boy, bike, tall man, teacher · What happens: see, steal, say, ride off, tell · To what, where: bike, boy, park · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Remembering details» 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, bike, tall man, teacher), 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	Example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 sees	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sees	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Manchester	case
6	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
7	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Example	appos
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bike	det
9	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sees	obj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 stolen	aux:pass
11	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sees	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 says	cc
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sees	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 says	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
18	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 says	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hoodie	punct
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hoodie	amod
22	hoodie	hoodie	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trainers	punct
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 trainers	amod
25	trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 man	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 man	punct
27	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 man	acl:relcl
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 rode	compound:prt
29	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 park	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 park	det
31	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rode	obl
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 park	punct
33	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 tells	punct
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 tells	advmod
35	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sees	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 teacher	det
37	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tells	obj
38	straight	straight	ADV	_	39 away	advmod
39	away	away	ADV	_	35 tells	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Example	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	see	present	a boy in Manchester	a bike					tree rules
2	steal	gerund · passive	a bike not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
3	say speech: assert	present	a boy in Manchester not said here		boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	ride off in a quote	past	tall man and green hoodie and white trainers not said here			the park			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards park=Trajectory
5	tell speech: assert	present	a teacher				then	away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:018-remembering-details.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 ×3, 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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