Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 17
A girl in Florida answered a call from an unknown number and told the caller her parents were away; the caller was a scammer, and the family had to change all their bank details.
Who acts: girl, parents, caller, family, scammers · What happens: answer, tell, be, have, change, detail · To what, where: call, unknown number, caller, scammer, bank details · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes» 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, parents, caller, family), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Florida | case |
| 4 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 call | det |
| 7 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 number | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 10 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 number | amod |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 caller | det |
| 15 | caller | caller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 parents | nmod:poss |
| 17 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 away | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 away | cop |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 told | ccomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 scammer | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 caller | det |
| 22 | caller | caller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 scammer | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 scammer | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 scammer | det |
| 25 | scammer | scammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 family | det |
| 29 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 scammer | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 change | mark |
| 32 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | xcomp |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 details | det:predet |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 details | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 details | compound |
| 36 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 change | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | 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 | answer speech: assert | past | a girl in Florida | a call | a unknown number | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a girl in Florida not said here | the caller | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caller=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl's parents | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the caller | a scammer | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the family | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | change | to-infinitive | the family not said here | scammers's bank details | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Patient | ||||
| 7 | detail | scammers = scammer | nom detail «cognition transitive»: poss=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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.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): 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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