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Our street against theirs, sentence 9

Then Sam asked Maddie the question nobody had asked: «Why do the streets even fight?» Maddie opened her mouth and shut it again.

Who acts: Sam, nobody, streets, Maddie · What happens: ask, fight, open, shut · To what, where: question, Maddie, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sam, nobody, streets, Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

advmodnsubjiobjdetobjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctpunctadvmodauxdetnsubjadvmodconjpunctpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjccconjobjadvmodpunctrootThenADVSamPROPNaskedVERBMaddiePROPNtheDETquestionNOUNnobodyPRONhadAUXaskedVERB:PUNCT«PUNCTWhyADVdoAUXtheDETstreetsNOUNevenADVfightVERB?PUNCT»PUNCTMaddiePROPNopenedVERBherPRONmouthNOUNandCCONJshutVERBitPRONagainADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 askedadvmod
2SamSamPROPNNumber=Sing3 askednsubj
3askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4MaddieMaddiePROPNNumber=Sing3 askediobj
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 questiondet
6questionquestionNOUNNumber=Sing3 askedobj
7nobodynobodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg9 askednsubj
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 askedaux
9askedaskVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 questionacl:relcl
10::PUNCT_3 askedpunct
11««PUNCT_17 fightpunct
12WhywhyADVPronType=Int17 fightadvmod
13dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 fightaux
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 streetsdet
15streetsstreetNOUNNumber=Plur17 fightnsubj
16evenevenADV_17 fightadvmod
17fightfightVERBVerbForm=Inf3 askedconj
18??PUNCT_17 fightpunct
19»»PUNCT_21 openedpunct
20MaddieMaddiePROPNNumber=Sing21 openednsubj
21openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 askedparataxis
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 mouthnmod:poss
23mouthmouthNOUNNumber=Sing21 openedobj
24andandCCONJ_25 shutcc
25shutshutVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 openedconj
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 shutobj
27againagainADV_25 shutadvmod
28..PUNCT_3 askedpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: askpastSamthe questionMaddiethentree rules
2ask speech: askpast · perfectnobodythe question not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3fight in a quotepresent · do-supportthe streetsvn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4openpastMaddieMaddie's mouthvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
5shutpastMaddie not said heremouthagainvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:9.

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. 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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