Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 2
But on the day he had to act surprised, the surprise felt flat, and he felt guilty every time Mum smiled.
Who acts: Ethan, day, surprise, Mum · What happens: have, act, feel, smile · To what, where: day, time
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 (Ethan, day, surprise, Mum), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 act | mark |
| 8 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 act | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surprise | det |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 felt | conj |
| 19 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 smiled | nsubj |
| 23 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ethan | the day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | act | to-infinitive | the day not said here | surprised property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | the surprise | day | flat property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | feel | past | Ethan | time | guilty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | smile | past | Mum | every time not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:2.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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