Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 18
A girl in Dublin did not mention to the doctor that her tummy pain had moved to the lower right side; the next day it was much worse and it turned out to be appendicitis needing surgery.
Who acts: girl, tummy pain, pain, appendicitis · What happens: not mention, move, be, turn out, need, pain · To what, where: doctor, lower right side, appendicitis, surgery · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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, tummy pain, pain, appendicitis), 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 mention | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Dublin | case |
| 4 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mention | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mention | advmod |
| 7 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 doctor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doctor | det |
| 10 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mention | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 moved | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pain | nmod:poss |
| 13 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pain | compound |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moved | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 moved | aux |
| 16 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 mention | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 side | det |
| 19 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 side | amod |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 side | amod |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 moved | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 mention | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 day | amod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 worse | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 worse | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 worse | cop |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 worse | advmod |
| 29 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 mention | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turned | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 worse | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 turned | compound:prt |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 appendicitis | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 appendicitis | cop |
| 36 | appendicitis | appendicitis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 turned | xcomp |
| 37 | needing | need | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 appendicitis | acl |
| 38 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 needing | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | past · do-support | a girl in Dublin | the doctor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to doctor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | move | past · perfect | girl's tummy pain | the lower right side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | pain | day | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | turn out | past | pain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | pain not said here | appendicitis | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | need | gerund | appendicitis not said here | surgery | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot surgery=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pain | girl | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.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): 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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