Taking too much, sentence 4
Ella grabbed the biggest slice of birthday cake before anyone else could.
Who acts: Ella · What happens: grab, slice · To what, where: biggest slice, birthday cake
This is a sentence of the lesson «Taking too much» 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 (Ella), 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 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grabbed | nsubj |
| 2 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slice | det |
| 4 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 slice | amod |
| 5 | slice | slice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grabbed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cake | case |
| 7 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cake | compound |
| 8 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slice | nmod |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 could | nsubj |
| 11 | else | else | ADV | _ | 10 anyone | advmod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 grabbed | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grabbed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | Ella | the biggest slice of birthday cake | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slice | birthday cake | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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:352-party-sweets-biggest-slice-best-pencils-and-pushing.lesson:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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