Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 15
Ben ate the sweets saved for the Sunday school prize, then owned up and brought a new bag from his pocket money.
Who acts: Ben · What happens: eat, save, own up, bring · To what, where: sweets, new bag, pocket money
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 (Ben), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sweets | det |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ate | obj |
| 5 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sweets | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 prize | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prize | det |
| 8 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 school | compound |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prize | compound |
| 10 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saved | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 owned | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 owned | advmod |
| 13 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ate | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 owned | compound:prt |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 owned | cc |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 owned | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bag | det |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bag | amod |
| 19 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 money | nmod:poss |
| 22 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 money | compound | ||
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Ben | the sweets | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | save | participle | the sweets not said here | for the school prize | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for prize=Source | ||||
| 3 | own up | past | Ben not said here | then | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | Ben not said here | a new bag | Ben's pocket money | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme from money=Initial_Location |
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:15.
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. 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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