Phone calls, visiting, thank-you notes, interrupting and quiet places, sentence 7

Example: a boy in Denver wants to tell his mum something while she talks to a neighbour.

Who acts: boy, card · What happens: want, tell, talk · To what, where: something, mum · 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, card), 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	7 wants	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Denver	case
6	Denver	Denver	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Example	appos
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	iobj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 tell	obj
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 talks	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talks	nsubj
15	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 neighbour	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 neighbour	det
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 talks	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Example	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	a boy in Denver				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Denver not said here	something	boy's mum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient something=Topic
3	talk	present	card			to a neighbour	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to neighbour=Co-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:7.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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