Maddie the tomboy, sentence 14
Then she asked why girls never got a game in the big street football at the rec.
Who acts: Maddie, girls · What happens: ask, not get · To what, where: game, big street football · 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 (Maddie, girls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 game | det |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 football | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 football | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 football | amod |
| 13 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 football | compound |
| 14 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 rec. | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rec. | det |
| 17 | rec. | rec. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Maddie | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not get | past | girls | a game | the big street football | at the rec. | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent game=Theme at rec.=Asset |
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:14.
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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