Staying up, screens and coming home late, sentence 6
Mum explained that the three days were a consequence to help her sleep, not revenge, and Isla said sorry.
Who acts: Mum, three days, Isla · What happens: explain, be, help, say, sleep · To what, where: consequence, sleep, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying up, screens and coming home 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 (Mum, three days, Isla), 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 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 explained | nsubj |
| 2 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 consequence | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 consequence | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 consequence | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 consequence | det |
| 9 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 explained | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 help | mark |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 consequence | acl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 help | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 revenge | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 revenge | advmod |
| 16 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 consequence | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 explained | conj |
| 21 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the three days | a consequence and revenge | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | Mum not said here | Mum's sleep | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Isla | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sleep | Mum | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-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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