Accidents told too late, sentence 15
He told Mum the truth, they buried it together, and he looks after the new fish every week.
Who acts: Leo, glasses · What happens: tell, bury, look · To what, where: truth, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Accidents told too late» 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 (Leo, glasses), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 buried | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 buried | nsubj |
| 8 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 buried | obj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 buried | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looks | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 fish | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fish | amod |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | obl |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 week | det |
| 20 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Leo | the truth | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 2 | bury | past | glasses = glass | truth | together property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | present | Leo | after the new fish; week | 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:343-accidents-told-too-late.lesson:15.
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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