Jake and the head teacher, sentence 12
Then Jake was put on report and needed a teacher's signature after every lesson; after two weeks the card was full of good comments, and he showed it to his gran.
Who acts: card, Jake, teacher · What happens: put, need, be, show, sign · To what, where: Jake, report, signature, card, gran
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 (card, Jake, teacher), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 2 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 report | case |
| 6 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 needed | cc |
| 8 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 teacher | det |
| 10 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signature | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 teacher | case |
| 12 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needed | obj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 lesson | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 lesson | det |
| 15 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needed | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 weeks | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 weeks | nummod |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 full | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 card | det |
| 21 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 needed | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 comments | case |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 comments | amod |
| 26 | comments | comment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 full | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 showed | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 showed | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 showed | nsubj |
| 30 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 needed | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 showed | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 gran | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 gran | nmod:poss |
| 34 | gran | gran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 showed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | Jake | report | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on report=Destination | |||
| 2 | need | past | a teacher's signature | after every lesson | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot signature=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the card | week | of good comments; full property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | show | past | Jake | card | Jake's gran | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to gran=Recipient | |||
| 5 | sign | a teacher | nom signature «communication 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:12.
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, 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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