Wasting food and water, sentence 3
Then a lunch helper saw the whole sandwich in the bin and told his teacher, who told Mum.
Who acts: lunch helper, teacher · What happens: see, tell · To what, where: whole sandwich, bin, teacher, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wasting food and water» 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 (lunch helper, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 helper | det |
| 3 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 helper | compound |
| 4 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sandwich | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sandwich | amod |
| 8 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bin | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bin | det |
| 11 | bin | bin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 15 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 teacher | acl:relcl |
| 19 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | 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 | see | past | a lunch helper | the whole sandwich | the bin | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sandwich=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a lunch helper not said here | helper's teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | helper's teacher | Mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
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:360-sandwiches-taps-lights-paper-and-the-buffet.lesson:3.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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