When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 10
He was marked late and the excuse never worked again — small excuses add up to a big habit.
Who acts: excuse, small excuses · What happens: mark, not work, add up · To what, where: Finn
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» 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 (excuse, small excuses), 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 | 3 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 marked | aux:pass |
| 3 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 marked | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 worked | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 excuse | det |
| 7 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worked | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 worked | advmod |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 marked | conj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 worked | advmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 add | punct |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 excuses | amod |
| 13 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 add | nsubj |
| 14 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 marked | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 add | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 habit | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 habit | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 habit | amod |
| 19 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 add | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past · passive | Finn | late property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not work | past | the excuse | again | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | add up speech: assert | present | small excuses | to a big habit | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to habit=Co-Patient |
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:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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