Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 8
The lesson was wasted, and he had to own up and make a practice chart for the fridge.
Who acts: teacher · What happens: waste, have, own up, make · To what, where: lesson, practice chart
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 (teacher), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lesson | det |
| 2 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wasted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wasted | aux:pass |
| 4 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wasted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wasted | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 own | mark |
| 10 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 own | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 own | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chart | det |
| 15 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chart | compound |
| 16 | chart | chart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fridge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fridge | det |
| 19 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chart | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wasted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waste | past · passive | the lesson | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | past | teacher | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | own up | to-infinitive | teacher not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | teacher not said here | a practice chart | for the fridge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent chart=Product for fridge=Asset |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×2. 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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