Jake and the head teacher, sentence 0

Jake had been sent to the head teacher's office so often that the secretary just said «the usual chair, Jake?» He laughed, but felt a bit ashamed.

Who acts: secretary · What happens: send, say, laugh, feel · To what, where: Jake, office · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (secretary), 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	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	10 office	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teacher	compound
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 office	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 teacher	case
10	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 often	advmod
12	often	often	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 secretary	det
15	secretary	secretary	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 said	advmod
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 often	advcl
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 chair	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chair	det
20	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chair	amod
21	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Jake	punct
23	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 chair	appos
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
26	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laughed	nsubj
27	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 felt	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 felt	cc
30	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 laughed	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bit	det
32	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ashamed	obl:unmarked
33	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 felt	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past · perfect · passive		Jake	the head teacher's office	often property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to office=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the secretary				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	secretary				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	past	secretary not said here			ashamed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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): R8-pos-agree ×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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