Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 0
As the collection plate went past in church in Boston, Matthew slipped out a coin to buy sweets after the service.
Who acts: collection plate, Matthew · What happens: go past, slip out, buy · To what, where: church, coin, sweets
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (collection plate, Matthew), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plate | det |
| 3 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plate | compound |
| 4 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slipped | advcl |
| 6 | past | past | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Boston | case |
| 10 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slipped | punct |
| 12 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | nsubj |
| 13 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 slipped | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 coin | det |
| 16 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 buy | mark |
| 18 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 slipped | advcl |
| 19 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 buy | obj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 service | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 service | det |
| 22 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buy | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go past | past | the collection plate | church | in Boston; past property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in church=Location | |||
| 2 | slip out | past | Matthew | a coin | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent coin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | Matthew not said here | sweets | after the service | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme |
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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:0.
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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