Sweets, change and a friend's toy, sentence 12

Harry's friend's toy car stayed in a drawer because he was scared someone would see it, while his friend searched and cried.

Who acts: toy car, friend, someone · What happens: stay, be, see, search, cry · To what, where: drawer, car

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 (toy car, friend, someone), 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	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Harry	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 car	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 friend	case
5	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 car	compound
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	nsubj
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 drawer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 drawer	det
10	drawer	drawer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 scared	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 scared	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 scared	cop
14	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stayed	advcl
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 see	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 scared	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 searched	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 searched	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 friend	nmod:poss
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 searched	nsubj
23	searched	search	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stayed	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cried	cc
25	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 searched	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Harry's friend's toy car		a drawer		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in drawer=Location
2	is	past	friend			scared property	tree rules
3	see	would	someone	car			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	search	past	friend's friend				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	cry speech: express	past	friend's friend not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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:338-sweets-change-and-a-friends-toy.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): R8-pos-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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