Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 3

Example: a boy in Florida is asked to watch his little sister in the bath while his mum answers the door.

Who acts: boy, mum · What happens: ask, watch, answer · To what, where: boy, little sister, bath, door

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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, mum), 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	Example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 boy	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Florida	case
6	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	aux:pass
8	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Example	appos
9	to	to	PART	_	10 watch	mark
10	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sister	amod
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watch	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 bath	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bath	det
16	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 watch	obl
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 answers	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mum	nmod:poss
19	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answers	nsubj
20	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 watch	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answers	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Example	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present · passive		a boy in Florida		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Florida not said here	boy's little sister	the bath	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	present	boy's mum	the door		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality

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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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 ×2, R6-punct-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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