Leaving someone out, sentence 11
A girl told a classmate she couldn't be the princess because of her skin colour — something she had heard somewhere and copied.
Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, not be, hear, copy · To what, where: classmate, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» 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 (girl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 classmate | det |
| 5 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 princess | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 princess | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 princess | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 princess | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 classmate | acl:relcl |
| 12 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 16 colour | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 because | fixed |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 colour | nmod:poss |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 colour | compound |
| 16 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 something | punct |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 colour | appos |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 something | acl:relcl |
| 22 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 heard | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 copied | cc |
| 24 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 heard | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | 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 | tell speech: assert | past | a girl | a classmate | because girl's skin colour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent classmate=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not is a | could | girl | the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | girl | somewhere property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | copy | participle | girl not said here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×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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