Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 19
At a funeral in Ireland some children laughed loudly and played on their phones; the family who had lost their mum were deeply hurt, and the children's parents had to apologise.
Who acts: children, family, parents · What happens: laugh, play, lose, hurt, have, apologise · To what, where: funeral, phones, mum, family
This is a sentence of the lesson «Quiet places and solemn moments» 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 (children, family, parents), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 funeral | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 funeral | det |
| 3 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughed | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Ireland | case |
| 5 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 funeral | nmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 children | det |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 laughed | nsubj |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 8 laughed | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 played | cc |
| 11 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 laughed | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 phones | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 phones | nmod:poss |
| 14 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 played | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 family | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 family | det |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 family | acl:relcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mum | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hurt | aux:pass |
| 24 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 25 hurt | advmod |
| 25 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 laughed | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 children | det |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 parents | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 children | case |
| 31 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hurt | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 apologise | mark |
| 34 | apologise | apologise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | some children | a funeral in Ireland | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | play | past | some children not said here | children's phones | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | the family | children's mum | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | hurt | past · passive | the family | deeply property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the children's parents | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | apologise speech: apologize | to-infinitive | the children's parents not said here | tree rules |
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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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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