Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 0
Liam's friends in Dublin dared him to call the lollipop lady a rude name as they crossed.
Who acts: friends · What happens: dare, call, cross · To what, where: Dublin, lollipop lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» 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 (friends), 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 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Liam | case |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dared | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Dublin | case |
| 5 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friends | nmod |
| 6 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dared | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 call | mark |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dared | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 11 | lollipop | lollipop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lady | compound |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 14 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 name | amod |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 crossed | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 crossed | nsubj |
| 18 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 call | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dared | 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 | dare | past | Liam's friends in Dublin | Dublin | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | Liam's friends in Dublin not said here | the lollipop lady | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme name=Result | ||||
| 3 | cross | past | friends = friend | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:0.
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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