Maddie the tomboy, sentence 1
Her mum stood at the bottom shouting, «Fish fingers are going cold!» Maddie shouted back, «I can see the whole town!» She came down in the end, with conkers in every pocket and a rip in her trousers.
Who acts: mum, Fish fingers, Maddie · What happens: stand, shout, go, shout back, see, come down · To what, where: bottom, whole town, end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mum, Fish fingers, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 bottom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 10 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fingers | compound |
| 11 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 going | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 going | xcomp |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 cold | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 Maddie | punct |
| 17 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shouted | nsubj |
| 18 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 shouted | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 shouted | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 town | amod |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 30 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 came | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 end | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 end | det |
| 35 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 conkers | punct |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 conkers | case |
| 38 | conkers | conker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 came | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 pocket | case |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 pocket | det |
| 41 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 conkers | nmod | ||
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 rip | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 rip | det |
| 44 | rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 conkers | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 trousers | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 47 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 rip | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Maddie's mum | the bottom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | Maddie's mum not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Fish fingers | cold property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shout back speech: express | past | Maddie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | can | Maddie | the whole town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | come down | past | Maddie | in the end | with conkers in every pocket and a rip in Maddie's trousers; down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location |
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:1.
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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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