Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 1
Harry in Manchester grabbed a handful of sweets from the pick-and-mix because nobody was watching.
Who acts: Harry, nobody · What happens: grab, watch · To what, where: handful
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sweets, change and a friend's toy» 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 (Harry, nobody), 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 | Harry | Harry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Manchester | case |
| 3 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Harry | nmod |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 handful | det |
| 6 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sweets | case |
| 8 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 handful | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 mix | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pick | det |
| 11 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mix | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 mix | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mix | cc |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sweets | nmod |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 watching | mark |
| 17 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 watching | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 watching | aux |
| 19 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 grabbed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabbed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | Harry in Manchester | a handful of sweets from pick mix | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | past · progressive | nobody | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.lesson:1.
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 ×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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