Accidents told too late, sentence 2
Grandad couldn't read his paper the next morning and had to go to the optician.
Who acts: Grandad · What happens: not read, have, go · To what, where: paper, optician
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 (Grandad), 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 | Grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 read | advmod |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paper | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morning | amod |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 read | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 optician | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 optician | det |
| 16 | optician | optician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | could | Grandad | Grandad's paper | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paper=Topic | |||
| 2 | have | past | Grandad not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Grandad not said here | the optician | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to optician=Initial_Location |
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:2.
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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