Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 4
A girl in Austin tells the doctor, "It hurts here, on the right side of my tummy, since yesterday," and the doctor quickly knows where to look.
Who acts: girl, driver, doctor · What happens: tell, hurt, know, look · To what, where: doctor, right side · 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, driver, doctor), 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 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Austin | case |
| 4 | Austin | Austin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doctor | det |
| 7 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tells | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurts | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurts | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hurts | nsubj |
| 11 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tells | ccomp |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 hurts | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 side | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurts | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tummy | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tummy | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knows | punct |
| 22 | since | since | ADP | _ | 23 yesterday | case |
| 23 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurts | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 yesterday | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 yesterday | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 knows | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 doctor | det |
| 28 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knows | nsubj |
| 29 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 30 knows | advmod |
| 30 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tells | conj |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 look | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 look | mark |
| 33 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 knows | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a girl in Austin | the doctor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | present | driver | the right side of my tummy; here | yesterday | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | present | the doctor | quickly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the doctor not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:4.
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): 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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