Accidents told too late, sentence 8
Told straight away, the water would have gone no further.
Who acts: water · What happens: tell, go · 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 (water), 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 | Told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gone | advcl |
| 2 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 away | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Told | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 further | advmod |
| 11 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 gone | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | 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 | participle | the water not said here | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | would · perfect | the water | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:8.
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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