What fights cost at home, sentence 15
Even quiet Sam's family paid: his mum took a day off work to go to a meeting about the bus-shelter boys who picked on him.
Who acts: family, mum, shelter boys · What happens: pay, take off, go, pick · To what, where: work, meeting
This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at home» 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 (family, mum, shelter boys), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 quiet | advmod |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sam | amod |
| 3 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Sam | case |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | nsubj |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mum | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paid | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 meeting | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 meeting | det |
| 19 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 boys | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boys | det |
| 22 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shelter | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bus | punct |
| 24 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boys | compound |
| 25 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 meeting | nmod |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 picked | nsubj |
| 27 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 boys | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 picked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | quiet Sam's family | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take off | past | family's mum | work | day | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | family's mum not said here | a meeting about the shelter boys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | pick | past | the shelter boys | on family | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on he=Patient |
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:376-what-fights-cost-at-home.lesson:15.
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. 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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