Our street against theirs, sentence 10
«Because... they're Station Road?» It was a reason that was really no reason at all.
Who acts: streets, question, reason · What happens: be · To what, where: Station Road, reason, all
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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 (streets, question, reason), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 reason | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 Road | mark |
| 3 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 7 Road | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Road | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Road | cop |
| 6 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Road | compound |
| 7 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reason | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Road | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 Road | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reason | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reason | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 reason | det |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 reason | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reason | cop |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 18 reason | advmod |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 reason | det |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reason | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 reason | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | streets = street | Station Road | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | question | a reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a reason | no reason | all | tree rules |
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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:10.
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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