Learning a skill, and coins and notes, sentence 18

A boy in New Zealand called Tom kept a pile of cash in his schoolbag to show off; it was stolen at break, and he lost his birthday money.

Who acts: boy · What happens: call, keep, show off, steal, lose · To what, where: boy, Tom, pile, schoolbag, break, birthday money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Learning a skill, and coins and notes» 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	8 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 New	case
4	New	New	PROPN	_	2 boy	nmod
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 New	flat
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boy	acl
7	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	obj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pile	det
10	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 cash	case
12	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pile	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 schoolbag	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 schoolbag	nmod:poss
15	schoolbag	schoolbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 show	mark
17	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kept	advcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 show	compound:prt
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 stolen	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stolen	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stolen	aux:pass
22	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 kept	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 break	case
24	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stolen	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lost	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lost	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lost	nsubj
28	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kept	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 money	nmod:poss
30	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 money	compound
31	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lost	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	call	participle		a boy in New not said here	Tom		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient
2	keep	past	a boy in New	a pile of cash		boy's schoolbag	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pile=Theme in schoolbag=Location
3	show off	to-infinitive	a boy in New not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	steal	past · passive		pile		break	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	lose	past	boy	boy's birthday money			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

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:260-learning-skills-and-coins.lesson:18.

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 ×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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