Shops, restaurants and libraries, sentence 3

A boy in Chicago is given a dollar too much in change; he says, "I think you gave me too much," and the cashier thanks him.

Who acts: boy, you, cashier · What happens: give, say, think, thank · To what, where: boy, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Shops, restaurants and libraries» 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, you, cashier), 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	6 given	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Chicago	case
4	Chicago	Chicago	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 says	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dollar	det
8	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dollar	amod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 change	case
12	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 much	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 says	nsubj
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 think	nsubj
19	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 says	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 think	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gave	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 think	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thanks	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cashier	det
29	cashier	cashier	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thanks	nsubj
30	thanks	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 says	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thanks	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
hedged: yes
teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	present · passive		a boy in Chicago		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient dollar=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	boy			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	give in a quote	past	you	much	boy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient much=Theme
5	thank speech: thank	present	the cashier		boy	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:273-shops-restaurants-and-libraries.lesson:3.

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 ×1, 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.

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