Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 13
When Ben called his uncle a name after his uncle teased him, Dad sent Ben to the car for five minutes; when Ben came back and said sorry, his uncle said sorry too for the teasing.
Who acts: Ben, uncle, Dad · What happens: call, tease, send, come back, say · To what, where: uncle, Ben, car · 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 (Ben, uncle, Dad), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 teased | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teased | nsubj |
| 11 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 teased | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
| 14 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 car | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 car | det |
| 19 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 minutes | case |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 minutes | nummod |
| 22 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sent | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 came | advmod |
| 25 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 said | advcl |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 came | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 came | conj |
| 30 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 said | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 33 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sent | conj |
| 35 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 said | xcomp |
| 36 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 sorry | advmod |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 teasing | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 teasing | det |
| 39 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | 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 | call | past | Ben | Ben's uncle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme name=Result | ||||
| 2 | tease | past | Ben's uncle | Ben | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | past | Dad | Ben | the car | minute | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ben=Theme to car=Destination | ||
| 4 | come back | past | Ben | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: apologize | past | Ben not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: apologize | past | Ben's uncle | for the teasing; sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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