Maddie the tomboy, sentence 0
Maddie climbed the tallest horse chestnut in the park and refused to come down for tea.
Who acts: Maddie · What happens: climb, refuse, not come down · To what, where: tallest horse chestnut, park
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie the tomboy» 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 (Maddie), 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 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chestnut | det |
| 4 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 chestnut | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chestnut | compound |
| 6 | chestnut | chestnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 park | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 park | det |
| 9 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 refused | cc |
| 11 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 refused | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 tea | case |
| 16 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Maddie | the tallest horse chestnut | the park | tree rules | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | Maddie not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not come down | to-infinitive | Maddie not said here | for tea; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:378-maddie-the-tomboy.lesson:0.
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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