Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work, sentence 17
When nobody came to pick up a girl in Texas, she walked home alone; her mum arrived late and panicked, and the police were called before the girl was found safe at home.
Who acts: nobody, girl, mum · What happens: come, pick up, walk, arrive, panic, call · To what, where: girl, Texas, police, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work» 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 (nobody, girl, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pick | mark |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 pick | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Texas | case |
| 10 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 walked | nsubj |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 walked | advmod |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 walked | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 arrived | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mum | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arrived | nsubj |
| 19 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 20 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 arrived | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 panicked | cc |
| 22 | panicked | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arrived | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 called | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 called | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 police | det |
| 26 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 called | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 called | aux:pass |
| 28 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 panicked | conj |
| 29 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 33 found | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 girl | det |
| 31 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 found | aux:pass |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 called | advcl |
| 34 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 found | xcomp |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 home | case |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nobody | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick up | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | a girl | Texas | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | |||
| 3 | walk | past | girl | alone, home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | girl's mum | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | panic | past | girl's mum not said here | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | call | past · passive | the police | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | find | past · passive | the girl | home | safe property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at home=Asset |
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:329-breakfast-register-timetable-corridors-drills-pickup-phones.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): 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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