When the police come, sentence 1
A police officer stood on Kieran's doorstep asking about a bike stolen from outside the Co-op.
Who acts: police officer · What happens: stand, ask, steal · To what, where: doorstep, bike, Co-op
This is a sentence of the lesson «When the police come» 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 (police officer), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 officer | det |
| 2 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 officer | compound |
| 3 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 doorstep | case |
| 6 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 doorstep | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Kieran | case |
| 8 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stood | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 bike | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bike | det |
| 12 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asking | obl |
| 13 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 bike | acl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Co-op | case |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 Co-op | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Co-op | det |
| 17 | Co-op | Co-op | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stolen | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a police officer | Kieran's doorstep | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | a police officer not said here | about a bike | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about bike=Topic | ||||
| 3 | steal | participle | a bike not said here | the Co-op | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:384-when-the-police-come.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. 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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