Classroom rules and homework, sentence 4
A girl in Dublin has been doing homework for two hours every night; her mum talks to the teacher, who explains it was meant to take only thirty minutes and changes it.
Who acts: girl, mum, teacher · What happens: do, talk, explain, mean, take, change · To what, where: homework · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classroom rules and homework» 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, teacher), 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 | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dublin | case |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 doing | aux |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doing | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 hours | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hours | nummod |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 doing | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doing | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 talks | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mum | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 talks | nsubj |
| 17 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 teacher | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 teacher | det |
| 20 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 talks | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 explains | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 explains | nsubj |
| 23 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 meant | aux:pass |
| 26 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 explains | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 meant | xcomp |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 thirty | advmod |
| 30 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 minutes | nummod |
| 31 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 take | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 changes | cc |
| 33 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 changes | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect · progressive | a girl in Dublin | homework | hour; night | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | talk | present | girl's mum | to the teacher | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to teacher=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | explain speech: assert | present | the teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean | past · passive | Homework | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | minute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | change | present | Homework | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:254-classroom-rules-and-homework.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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