Little lies at home, sentence 9
Nobody found out, but he could not look Mum in the eye at dinner and could not sleep.
Who acts: Nobody, Owen · What happens: find out, not look, not sleep · To what, where: Mum, eye
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 (Nobody, Owen), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 found | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 look | advmod |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | conj |
| 10 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 eye | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eye | det |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 dinner | case |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sleep | cc |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sleep | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sleep | advmod |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 look | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | Nobody | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not look | could | Owen | Mum | the eye | at dinner | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mum=Attribute | ||
| 3 | not sleep | could | Owen not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:9.
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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