Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 11
Owen looked in the teacher's desk while she was out; she came back, saw him, and he stayed in at break.
Who acts: Owen, teacher · What happens: look, be, come back, see, stay in · To what, where: teacher, break
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Owen, teacher), 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 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 desk | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 desk | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 teacher | case |
| 7 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 out | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 out | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 out | cop |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stayed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stayed | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stayed | nsubj |
| 22 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 stayed | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 break | case |
| 25 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stayed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Owen | in the teacher's desk | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in desk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Owen | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | Owen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Owen not said here | teacher | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stay in | past | teacher | break | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at break=Location |
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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.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): R1-cc-next ×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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