Home alone, the door and the phone, sentence 6

For example, a man knocks and says he has come to read the gas meter.

Who acts: man · What happens: knock, say, come, read · To what, where: gas meter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocks	nsubj
6	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 knocks	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 says	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 read	mark
13	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meter	det
15	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meter	compound
16	meter	meter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 read	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 knocks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	knock	present	a man		for example	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	a man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present · perfect	man			tree rules
4	read	to-infinitive	man not said here	the gas meter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meter=Topic

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: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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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