Putting the blame on someone else, sentence 1
Archie in Brisbane left the class hamster's cage open, and when the hamster got out he said the new boy did it.
Who acts: Archie, hamster, new boy · What happens: leave, get out, say, do · To what, where: cage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting the blame on someone else» 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 (Archie, hamster, new boy), 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 | Archie | Archie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Brisbane | case |
| 3 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Archie | nmod |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hamster | det |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hamster | compound |
| 7 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 hamster | case |
| 9 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 got | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hamster | det |
| 15 | hamster | hamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 boy | amod |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Archie in Brisbane | the class hamster's cage | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme | |||
| 2 | get out | past | the hamster | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | hamster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past | the new boy | cage | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:344-putting-the-blame-on-someone-else.lesson:1.
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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