Quiet places and solemn moments, sentence 4

On Anzac Day in Wellington a boy hears the call for a minute's silence; he stops talking, stands completely still, and remembers the people who died in wars.

Who acts: boy, people, minute · What happens: hear, stop, talk, stand, remember, die · To what, where: call, Anzac, people

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 (boy, people, minute), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 Anzac	case
2	Anzac	anzac	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hears	obl
3	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Anzac	flat
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Wellington	case
5	Wellington	Wellington	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Day	nmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hears	nsubj
8	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 call	det
10	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hears	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 silence	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 minute	det
13	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 silence	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 minute	case
15	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 call	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stops	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stops	nsubj
18	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hears	parataxis
19	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 stops	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stands	punct
21	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 stops	conj
22	completely	completely	ADV	_	23 still	advmod
23	still	still	ADV	_	21 stands	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 remembers	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 remembers	cc
26	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hears	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 remembers	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 died	nsubj
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 people	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 wars	case
32	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 died	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hears	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	a boy	the call	Anzac		for a minute's silence	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus
2	stop	present	boy					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund	boy not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stand	present	boy not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	remember	present	a boy not said here	the people				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Theme
6	die	past	the people				in wars	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in war=Attribute
7	silence		a minute					nom silence «state 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:224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/224-quiet-places-and-solemn-moments/4/