Pocket money, saving and spending, sentence 17
A girl in Texas called Ana spent all her pocket money on sweets every week; when her bike tyre burst she had nothing saved and walked to school for a month.
Who acts: girl, bike tyre, tyre · What happens: call, spend, burst, have, save, walk · To what, where: girl, Ana, sweets, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pocket money, saving and spending» 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, bike tyre, tyre), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 girl | acl |
| 6 | Ana | Ana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | obj |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 money | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 money | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 money | compound | ||
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sweets | case |
| 13 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spent | obl |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 week | det |
| 15 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 burst | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tyre | nmod:poss |
| 19 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tyre | compound |
| 20 | tyre | tyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burst | nsubj |
| 21 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | advcl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spent | parataxis |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 had | obj |
| 25 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 nothing | acl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 walked | cc |
| 27 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 school | case |
| 29 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 walked | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 month | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 month | det |
| 32 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 walked | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | a girl in Texas not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spend | past | a girl in Texas | Ana | sweets | week | tree rules | ||
| 3 | burst | past | girl's bike tyre | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | tyre | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | save | participle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | walk | past | tyre not said here | month | to school result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to school=Result |
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:261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending.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): R8-pos-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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