Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 16

A boy said he was too tired to visit his great-aunt, who had been looking forward to it; he put it right by making her a card and going with Mum the next Sunday.

Who acts: boy, great aunt · What happens: say, be, visit, look, put, make · To what, where: great aunt, plate, card, girl · 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, great aunt), 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	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 visit	mark
9	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tired	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 aunt	nmod:poss
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 aunt	amod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 great	punct
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visit	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 looking	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looking	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 looking	aux
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 aunt	acl:relcl
19	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 looking	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 looking	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	obj
26	right	right	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
27	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 making	mark
28	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 put	advcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 making	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 card	det
31	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 making	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 going	cc
33	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 making	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 Mum	case
35	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 going	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sunday	det
37	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Sunday	amod
38	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 going	obl:unmarked
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	boy				tired property	tree rules
3	visit	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy's great aunt				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Co-Agent
4	look	past · perfect · progressive	boy's great aunt		plate		forward property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme
5	put	past	boy	plate			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
6	make	gerund	boy not said here	a card	girl			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary card=Product
7	go	gerund	boy not said here			sunday	with Mum	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with mum=Beneficiary

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:16.

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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