Little lies at home, sentence 7
Owen's ball knocked the vase over, and he said his little sister did it.
Who acts: ball, Owen, little sister · What happens: knock over, say, do · To what, where: vase · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» 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 (ball, Owen, little sister), 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 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Owen | case |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knocked | nsubj |
| 4 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vase | det |
| 6 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knocked | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 knocked | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knocked | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sister | amod |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock over | past | Owen's ball | the vase | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent vase=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Owen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Owen's little sister | vase | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:7.
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): R7-rel-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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