Phones, visiting friends, presents and thank-you notes, sentence 4

A girl in Vancouver gets the same book from two aunts; she thanks both warmly, and later, with her mum's help and never in front of the givers, swaps one for a different book.

Who acts: girl, mum · What happens: get, thank, swap, help · To what, where: same book, both, one

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, mum), 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 gets	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Vancouver	case
4	Vancouver	Vancouver	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 book	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 book	amod
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gets	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 aunts	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 aunts	nummod
11	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gets	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 thanks	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thanks	nsubj
14	thanks	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	parataxis
15	both	both	PRON	PronType=Tot	14 thanks	obj
16	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	14 thanks	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 later	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 later	cc
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 swaps	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 help	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 help	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mum	nmod:poss
23	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 help	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 mum	case
25	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swaps	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 front	cc
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 front	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 front	case
29	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 help	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 givers	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 givers	det
32	givers	giver	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 front	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 swaps	punct
34	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 thanks	conj
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 swaps	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 book	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 book	det
38	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 book	amod
39	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swaps	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gets	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	a girl in Vancouver	the same book	from two aunts	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent book=Theme from aunt=Source
2	thank speech: thank	present	girl	both	warmly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme
3	swap	present	girl not said here	one	with girl's mum's help and front of the givers; for a different book; late property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme for book=Co-Theme
4	help		girl's mum			nom help «act 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: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. 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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