Jake and the head teacher, sentence 21
When school calls a parent in, the parent may have to leave work and can lose pay.
Who acts: school, parent · What happens: call in, have, leave, lose · To what, where: parent, work, pay
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, parent), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 calls | mark |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | nsubj |
| 3 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 parent | det |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calls | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 calls | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 calls | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 parent | det |
| 9 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 leave | mark |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lose | cc |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lose | aux |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | conj |
| 18 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | 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 | present | school | a parent | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | may | the parent | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | the parent not said here | work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | can | the parent not said here | pay | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Eventuality |
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:21.
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): no change. 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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