Being trusted and what to do with things you find, sentence 25

A boy in Leeds kept a wallet he found in the park; it held an old man's only money for the week, and the police later traced it back to him.

Who acts: boy, wallet, police · What happens: keep, find, hold, trace back · To what, where: wallet, park, only money, money, boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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, wallet, police), 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	5 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wallet	det
7	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wallet	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 park	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 park	det
12	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	nsubj
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	parataxis
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 money	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 man	case
20	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 money	amod
21	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 week	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 week	det
24	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 money	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 traced	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 traced	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 police	det
28	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 traced	nsubj
29	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 traced	advmod
30	traced	trace	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 held	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 traced	obj
32	back	back	ADV	_	30 traced	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 traced	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy in Leeds	a wallet					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Theme
2	find	past	boy	a wallet not said here		the park			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Topic
3	hold	past	wallet	a old man's only money			for the week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
4	trace back	past	the police	money	boy			late property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:286-being-trusted-and-things-you-find.lesson:25.

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 ×2. 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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