Borrowing without asking, sentence 5
But a few weeks later, bored at the swap club, he slipped the rare card from the pile when nobody was looking.
Who acts: Noah, nobody · What happens: slip, look · To what, where: rare card
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 bored | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 weeks | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weeks | amod |
| 4 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 bored | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 later | punct |
| 7 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slipped | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 club | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 club | det |
| 10 | swap | swap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 club | compound |
| 11 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bored | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slipped | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slipped | nsubj |
| 14 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 card | det |
| 16 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 card | amod |
| 17 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipped | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 pile | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pile | det |
| 20 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipped | obl |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 looking | advmod |
| 22 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 looking | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 looking | aux |
| 24 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 slipped | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 slipped | 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 | slip | past | Noah | the rare card | from the pile | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent card=Patient from pile=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | nobody | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:5.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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