Borrowing without asking, sentence 1
His aunt rang to ask if anyone had seen it, and Mum was embarrassed in front of her sister.
Who acts: aunt, anyone, Mum · What happens: ring, ask, see, be · To what, where: few, front
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 (aunt, anyone, Mum), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 2 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rang | nsubj |
| 3 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rang | xcomp |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 embarrassed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 embarrassed | cc |
| 13 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 embarrassed | cop |
| 15 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rang | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 front | case |
| 17 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 embarrassed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sister | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sister | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 front | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rang | 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 | ring | past | cousin's aunt | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | cousin's aunt not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | anyone | few | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Mum | front of aunt's sister | embarrassed property | tree rules |
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: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): 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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