Breakfast, the register, the timetable, corridors, earthquake drills, pick-up, phones, tidy desks, homework and group work, sentence 4
He goes back into the school office and tells a teacher, who phones his family; he does not walk off or get into a car he was not told about.
Who acts: adult, teacher, car · What happens: go back, tell, phone, not walk off, get, not tell · To what, where: school office, teacher, family, car, adult · 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 (adult, teacher, car), 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 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 goes | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 office | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 office | det |
| 6 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 office | compound |
| 7 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tells | cc |
| 9 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 teacher | det |
| 11 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tells | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 phones | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 phones | nsubj |
| 14 | phones | phone | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 phones | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 walk | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 walk | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 walk | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 walk | advmod |
| 21 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tells | parataxis |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 walk | compound:prt |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 get | cc |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 walk | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 car | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 car | det |
| 27 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 told | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 told | aux:pass |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 told | advmod |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 car | acl:relcl |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 told | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | adult | the school office | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | adult not said here | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | phone | present | a teacher | adult's family | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not walk off | present · do-support | adult | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | adult not said here | a car | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into car=Destination | ||||
| 6 | not tell speech: assert | past · passive | a car not said here | adult | about property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:4.
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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