Accidents told too late, sentence 6
Nobody noticed — until a wet patch spread across the ceiling downstairs.
Who acts: Nobody, wet patch · What happens: notice, spread · To what, where: ceiling
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 (Nobody, wet patch), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 noticed | nsubj |
| 2 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 noticed | punct |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 spread | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 patch | det |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 patch | amod |
| 7 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 noticed | advcl |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 ceiling | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ceiling | det |
| 11 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 12 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 2 noticed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Nobody | downstairs property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | a wet patch | the ceiling | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across ceiling=Destination |
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:6.
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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