Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 6

He tells his teacher, the office phones home, and the school finds him something to eat.

Who acts: boy, office, school · What happens: tell, phone, find, eat · To what, where: teacher, something, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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, office, school), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teacher	nmod:poss
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 phones	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 office	det
7	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 phones	nsubj
8	phones	phone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	parataxis
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 phones	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 finds	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 finds	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 school	det
13	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finds	nsubj
14	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 finds	iobj
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 finds	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 something	acl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	boy		boy's teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	phone	present	the office			home property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	present	the school	something	boy		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme something=Attribute
4	eat	to-infinitive	the school not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:6.

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): no change. 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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