Maddie and Chloe's plaits, sentence 1
In the line Chloe giggled, «Ew, mud monster.» Maddie's face went hot, and before she thought, she grabbed both of Chloe's long plaits and yanked.
Who acts: Chloe, face · What happens: giggle, go, think, grab, yank · To what, where: line, both
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» 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 (Chloe, face), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 line | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 line | det |
| 3 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giggled | obl |
| 4 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 giggled | nsubj |
| 5 | giggled | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ew | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ew | punct |
| 8 | Ew | ew | INTJ | Number=Sing | 5 giggled | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ew | punct |
| 10 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 monster | compound |
| 11 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 giggled | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 giggled | punct |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Maddie | case |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 giggled | ccomp |
| 18 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 went | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grabbed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 grabbed | cc |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 thought | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 grabbed | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thought | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 grabbed | nsubj |
| 26 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 giggled | conj |
| 27 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 grabbed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 plaits | case |
| 29 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 plaits | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Chloe | case |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 plaits | amod |
| 32 | plaits | plait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 both | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 yanked | cc |
| 34 | yanked | yank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 grabbed | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 giggled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | giggle | past | Chloe | the line | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Maddie's face | hot property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | face | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grab | past | face | both | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme | ||||
| 5 | yank | past | face not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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