Promises to friends and to yourself, sentence 11
Tom promised his little sister his old bike, then sold it for money.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: promise, sell · To what, where: old bike, little sister, bike
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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 (Tom), 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 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | iobj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bike | nmod:poss |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bike | amod |
| 8 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promised | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sold | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sold | advmod |
| 11 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 promised | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sold | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sold | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | 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 | promise speech: promise | past | Tom | Tom's old bike | Tom's little sister | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent sister=Goal bike=Theme | |||
| 2 | sell | past | Tom not said here | bike | then | for money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for money=Asset |
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:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.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): R5-strong ×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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