Promises, sentence 10
Example: a girl in Colorado promised to look after a new puppy.
Who acts: girl · What happens: promise, look
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises» 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), 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 | _ | 1 Example | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promised | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Colorado | case |
| 6 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 puppy | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 puppy | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 puppy | amod |
| 13 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | a girl in Colorado | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | a girl in Colorado not said here | after a new puppy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:199-promises.lesson:10.
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): no change. 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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