The library and books, sentence 4
A boy in Wellington gets his own library card from the public library with his mum; now he can borrow many books for free and only buys the ones he loves.
Who acts: boy · What happens: get, borrow, buy, love · To what, where: own library card, public library, many books, ones
This is a sentence of the lesson «The library and books» 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), 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 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Wellington | case |
| 4 | Wellington | Wellington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | gets | get | 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 | 9 card | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 card | amod |
| 8 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 card | compound |
| 9 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 library | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 library | det |
| 12 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 library | amod |
| 13 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 mum | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mum | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 borrow | punct |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | _ | 21 borrow | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 borrow | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 borrow | aux |
| 21 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gets | parataxis |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 books | amod |
| 23 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 borrow | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 free | case |
| 25 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 borrow | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 buys | cc |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 buys | advmod |
| 28 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 borrow | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ones | det |
| 30 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 buys | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 loves | nsubj |
| 32 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 ones | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | a boy in Wellington | boy's own library card | the public library | with boy's mum | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent card=Theme from library=Source | ||
| 2 | borrow | can | boy | many books | now | for free | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||
| 3 | buy | present | boy not said here | the ones | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | present | boy | the ones not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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:259-library-and-books.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): R5-strong ×3. 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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