Breakfast, the school day and honest homework, sentence 17
A boy in England skipped breakfast every day; by mid-morning he felt dizzy and grumpy, and once he fainted in PE.
Who acts: boy · What happens: skip, feel, faint · To what, where: breakfast, PE
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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), 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 skipped | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 England | case |
| 4 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | skipped | skip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skipped | obj |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skipped | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 mid-morning | case |
| 11 | mid-morning | mid-morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 skipped | parataxis |
| 14 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grumpy | cc |
| 16 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dizzy | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fainted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fainted | cc |
| 19 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 21 fainted | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fainted | nsubj |
| 21 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 felt | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 PE | case |
| 23 | PE | pe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fainted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | past | a boy in England | breakfast | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Agent | |||
| 2 | feel | past | boy | by mid-morning; dizzy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | faint | past | boy | PE | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework.lesson:17.
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): 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.
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