Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 12
When he finally told his teacher, she sorted it out in a day.
Who acts: boy, lesson · What happens: tell, sort out · To what, where: teacher, bruise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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, lesson), 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 | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sorted | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorted | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sorted | nsubj |
| 9 | sorted | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sorted | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sorted | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sorted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sorted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | boy | boy's teacher | finally property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||
| 2 | sort out | past | lesson | bruise | day | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:12.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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