Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 20
A boy in New York prank-called 911 for fun; the line was busy for a real emergency nearby, and police later came to his house.
Who acts: boy, line, police · What happens: call, be, come · To what, where: 911, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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, line, police), 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 | 8 called | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 York | case |
| 4 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 York | amod |
| 5 | York | York | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 6 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 prank | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | 911 | 911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 fun | case |
| 11 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 busy | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 line | det |
| 14 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 busy | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 busy | cop |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 called | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 emergency | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 emergency | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 emergency | amod |
| 20 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 busy | obl |
| 21 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 20 emergency | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 24 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 came | nsubj |
| 25 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 came | advmod |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | a boy in New York | 911 | for fun | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent 911=Theme for fun=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | past | the line | for a real emergency; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | police | Boy's house | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:20.
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, R7-rel-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.
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