Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 11

A girl in Sydney posted online that her parents were out all evening; strangers saw it, and her family had to change the locks after someone tried their door.

Who acts: girl, parents, strangers, family, someone · What happens: post, be, see, have, change, try · To what, where: parent, locks, door

This is a sentence of the lesson «Home alone, the door and the phone» 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, parents, strangers, family), 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	5 posted	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Sydney	case
4	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	online	online	ADV	_	5 posted	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 out	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 parents	nmod:poss
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 out	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 out	cop
11	out	out	ADV	_	5 posted	ccomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 out	obl:unmarked
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 posted	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 had	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 family	nmod:poss
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 change	mark
24	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 had	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 locks	det
26	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 change	obj
27	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 tried	mark
28	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 tried	nsubj
29	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 change	advcl
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 door	nmod:poss
31	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tried	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 posted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	post	past	a girl in Sydney			online property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	girl's parents		evening	out property	tree rules
3	see	past	strangers	parent			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	have	past	girl's family				tree rules
5	change	to-infinitive	girl's family not said here	the locks			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=Patient
6	try	past	someone	locks's door			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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:035-home-alone.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): 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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