Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 19
Scammers phone children to find out when a house is empty or to get money and passwords.
Who acts: Scammers, house · What happens: find out, be, get · To what, where: phone children, money
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 (Scammers, house), 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 | Scammers | scammer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | nsubj |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 children | compound |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 empty | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 empty | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 empty | cop |
| 11 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 find | advcl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 empty | conj |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 passwords | cc |
| 17 | passwords | password | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 money | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | to-infinitive | Scammers | phone children | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a house | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | a house not said here | money and passwords | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=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:222-phones-visits-presents-and-thank-you-notes.lesson:19.
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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