Soccer, American football and baseball, sentence 4

A boy in London tells his friend in Chicago that he loves football, and the friend imagines helmets and touchdowns, until they work out the boy means soccer.

Who acts: boy, friend, helmet · What happens: tell, love, imagine, work out, mean · To what, where: friend, football, helmets, soccer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Soccer, American football and baseball» 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, friend, helmet), 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 tells	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 London	case
4	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 friend	nmod:poss
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Chicago	case
9	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 friend	nmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 loves	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 loves	nsubj
12	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	ccomp
13	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 loves	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 imagines	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 imagines	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 friend	det
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 imagines	nsubj
18	imagines	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	conj
19	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 imagines	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 touchdowns	cc
21	touchdowns	touchdown	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 helmets	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 work	punct
23	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 work	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 work	nsubj
25	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	advcl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 work	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boy	det
28	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	nsubj
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 work	ccomp
30	soccer	soccer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 means	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a boy in London		boy's friend	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	love	present	boy	football		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer football=Stimulus
3	imagine	present	the friend	helmets and touchdowns		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot helmet=Theme
4	work out	present	helmet			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	mean	present	the boy	soccer		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soccer=Topic

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:248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball.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): 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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