Jake and the head teacher, sentence 1

Mr Pryce, the head, asked him to explain exactly what had happened, and Jake realised he could not remember why he had hit the other boy.

Who acts: Mr Pryce, Jake · What happens: ask, explain, happen, realise, not remember, hit · To what, where: secretary, other boy · 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 (Mr Pryce, Jake), 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	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pryce	compound
2	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 head	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 head	det
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pryce	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pryce	punct
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 explain	mark
10	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 asked	xcomp
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 what	advmod
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happened	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happened	aux
14	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 explain	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 realised	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 realised	cc
17	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 realised	nsubj
18	realised	realise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 remember	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 remember	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 remember	advmod
22	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 realised	ccomp
23	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 hit	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hit	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hit	aux
26	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 remember	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boy	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boy	amod
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hit	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Mr Pryce		secretary	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	explain speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mr Pryce not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	realise	past	Jake			tree rules
5	not remember	could	Jake			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	hit	past · perfect	Jake	the other boy		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-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:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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