Borrowing without asking, sentence 0
Noah in Melbourne took a toy from his cousin's house because his cousin had so many and he had few.
Who acts: Noah, cousin · What happens: take, have · To what, where: toy, house, many, few
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing without asking» 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 (Noah, cousin), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Melbourne | case |
| 3 | Melbourne | Melbourne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Noah | nmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 toy | det |
| 6 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 cousin | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | advcl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | conj |
| 21 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 had | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Noah in Melbourne | a toy | Noah's cousin's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent toy=Theme from house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | Noah's cousin | many | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | cousin | few | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Patient |
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:339-borrowing-without-asking.lesson:0.
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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