Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 2
In the playground, games need clear rules agreed before they start, and when a game gets too rough you stop it and tell the duty teacher (the teacher watching the playground) if it goes on.
Who acts: games, game, you, teacher, playground · What happens: need, agree, start, get, stop, tell · To what, where: clear rules, playground, duty teacher · 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 (games, game, you, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 playground | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 playground | det |
| 3 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 need | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 playground | punct |
| 5 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rules | amod |
| 8 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 need | obj |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rules | acl |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 start | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 start | nsubj |
| 12 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 agreed | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stop | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stop | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 gets | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 game | det |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gets | nsubj |
| 18 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 stop | advcl |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 rough | advmod |
| 20 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gets | xcomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 stop | nsubj |
| 22 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 need | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stop | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tell | cc |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 stop | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 teacher | det |
| 27 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 teacher | compound |
| 28 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obj |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 teacher | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 teacher | det |
| 31 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 teacher | appos |
| 32 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 teacher | acl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 playground | det |
| 34 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 watching | obj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 teacher | punct |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 goes | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 goes | nsubj |
| 38 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 tell | advcl |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 goes | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 need | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | games | clear rules | the playground | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rule=Theme | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | clear rules not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start | present | games = game | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | present | a game | rough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | stop | present | you | playground | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the duty teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | watch | gerund | the teacher not said here | the playground | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playground=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go on a condition, not said to happen | present | playground | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:2.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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.
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