Jake and the head teacher, sentence 8

He made Jake a playground buddy for the Year 2s, and Jake had a whole week without a fight because he had little ones to look after.

Who acts: Pryce, Jake · What happens: make, have, look after · To what, where: playground buddy, Jake, little ones

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 buddy	det
5	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buddy	compound
6	buddy	buddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 2s	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 2s	det
9	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 2s	compound
10	2s	2	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 buddy	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 week	amod
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 fight	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fight	det
20	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	advcl
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ones	amod
25	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 had	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ones	acl
28	after	after	ADP	_	27 look	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Pryce	a playground buddy	Jake			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset jake=Beneficiary buddy=Product
2	have	past	Jake			week	without a fight	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Pryce	little ones				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	look after	to-infinitive	Pryce not said here	little ones not said here				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:8.

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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