Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 18
A boy in Ontario went to a friend's house without telling his mum; when he was not home by dark she called the police, who searched the streets for him.
Who acts: boy, house, family, police · What happens: go, tell, not be, call, search · To what, where: house, mum, police, streets · 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 (boy, house, family, police), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ontario | case |
| 4 | Ontario | Ontario | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 telling | mark |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 house | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mum | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 telling | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 home | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 home | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 home | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 home | advmod |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 called | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 dark | case |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 home | obl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 police | det |
| 26 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 called | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 searched | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 searched | nsubj |
| 29 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 police | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 streets | det |
| 31 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 searched | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 searched | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | a boy in Ontario | a friend's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a friend's house not said here | boy's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | boy | by dark; home property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | past | family | the police | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | search | past | the police | the streets | for boy | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent street=Location for he=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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:18.
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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