Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 24
A boy in New York picked up a call from an unknown number and told the caller his address and that his parents were out; his mum was very worried and they told the police.
Who acts: boy, parents, mum, callers · What happens: pick up, tell, be, address · To what, where: call, unknown number, address, caller, police · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places» 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, parents, mum, callers), 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 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 York | case |
| 4 | New | New | PROPN | _ | 5 York | flat |
| 5 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 call | det |
| 9 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picked | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 number | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 number | det |
| 12 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 number | amod |
| 13 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 picked | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 caller | det |
| 17 | caller | caller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 address | nmod:poss |
| 19 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 out | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 out | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 parents | nmod:poss |
| 23 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 out | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 out | cop |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 address | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 worried | punct |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mum | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 worried | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 worried | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 worried | advmod |
| 31 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 told | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 told | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 told | nsubj |
| 34 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 picked | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 police | det |
| 36 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 told | iobj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | a boy in New York | a call | a unknown number | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Topic | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a boy in New York not said here | boy's address | the caller | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent caller=Recipient address=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | past | boy's parents | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | boy's mum | worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | callers = caller | the police | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | address | boy | nom address «communication 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:297-calls-visits-thank-yous-and-quiet-places.lesson:24.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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