Jake and the head teacher, sentence 11
The fourth time the school called Jake's dad in, Dad said in the car: «I lost half a day's pay for this.» Jake had never thought that his fights cost his family money.
Who acts: school, Dad, Jake, fights, day · What happens: call in, say, lose, not think, cost, pay · To what, where: fourth time, dad, car, pay, family money · 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 (school, Dad, Jake, fights), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 school | det |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Jake | case |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 12 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 car | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 car | det |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 23 day | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pay | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 day | case |
| 25 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 lost | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 Jake | punct |
| 30 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 thought | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 thought | advmod |
| 33 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 cost | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fights | nmod:poss |
| 36 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 cost | nsubj |
| 37 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 thought | ccomp |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 money | nmod:poss |
| 39 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 money | compound |
| 40 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cost | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in speech: assert | past | the school | the fourth time not said here | Jake's dad | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Dad | the car | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | lose in a quote | past | Dad | half day's pay | for this | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | not think speech: other | past | Jake | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cost | past | Jake's fights | Jake's family money | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value | ||||
| 6 | pay in a quote | half day | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | fight | Jake | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:11.
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, R7-rel-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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