Promises to family, sentence 5
Maya promised to feed the cat while Mum was at work and forgot.
Who acts: Maya, Mum · What happens: promise, feed, be, forget · To what, where: cat, work
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to family» 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 (Maya, 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 | Maya | Maya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 feed | mark |
| 4 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | obj |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 work | mark |
| 8 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 work | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feed | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 forgot | cc |
| 13 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Maya | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feed not said to happen | to-infinitive | Maya not said here | the cat | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Mum | work | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | Maya not said here | tree rules |
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:358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat.lesson:5.
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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