Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 17

A stranger in a car at a school gate in Arizona told a girl her mum had sent him to collect her; she ran back to the teacher instead, and the police later found he had no right to be there.

Who acts: stranger, mum, police, teacher · What happens: tell, send, collect, run back, find, have · To what, where: girl, Arizona, mum, right · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 (stranger, mum, police, 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 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 car	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stranger	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 gate	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gate	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gate	compound
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stranger	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Arizona	case
11	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gate	nmod
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
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	18 sent	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sent	aux
18	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 told	ccomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sent	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 collect	mark
21	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sent	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 collect	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 ran	nsubj
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	parataxis
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 ran	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 teacher	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 teacher	det
29	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ran	obl
30	instead	instead	ADV	_	25 ran	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 found	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 found	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 police	det
34	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 found	nsubj
35	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 found	advmod
36	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ran	conj
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 found	ccomp
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 right	det
40	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	43 there	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 there	cop
43	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 right	acl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	a stranger in a car at a school gate in Arizona		a girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic
2	send	past · perfect	stranger's mum	Arizona			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	collect	to-infinitive	stranger's mum not said here	mum			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	run back	past	mum			to the teacher result; instead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to teacher=Result
5	find	past	the police			late property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	have	past	teacher	no right			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
7	is	to-infinitive	teacher not said here	no right not said here		there property	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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:17.

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, 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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