Prices, change, borrowing and lending, sentence 16

A girl in California lent her new headphones to a boy she hardly knew; he never gave them back and she saved for months to replace them.

Who acts: girl, money · What happens: lend, know, not give back, save, replace · To what, where: new headphones, boy, headphones

This is a sentence of the lesson «Prices, change, borrowing and lending» 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, money), 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	5 lent	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 California	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 headphones	nmod:poss
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 headphones	amod
8	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lent	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 boy	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lent	obl
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 knew	nsubj
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 knew	advmod
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 gave	advmod
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lent	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gave	obj
20	back	back	ADV	_	18 gave	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saved	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saved	nsubj
23	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gave	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 months	case
25	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saved	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 replace	mark
27	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saved	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 replace	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lend	past	a girl in California	girl's new headphones	a boy			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme to boy=Recipient
2	know	past	girl	a boy not said here			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
3	not give back	past	money	headphones = headphone				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	save	past	girl			month		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	replace	to-infinitive	girl not said here	headphones = headphone				vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:262-prices-change-and-borrowing.lesson:16.

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): no change. 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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