When the police come, sentence 11

A week later Maddie was in a park scuffle when a police car pulled up; everyone scattered except Maddie, who stood there with a muddy knee.

Who acts: Maddie, everyone · What happens: be, pull up, scatter, stand · To what, where: park scuffle, police car

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 (Maddie, everyone), 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	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scuffle	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 week	advmod
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 scuffle	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scuffle	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 scuffle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scuffle	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scuffle	compound
9	scuffle	scuffle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 pulled	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
12	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 car	compound
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pulled	nsubj:pass
14	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scuffle	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 pulled	compound:prt
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 scattered	punct
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 scattered	nsubj
18	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scuffle	parataxis
19	except	except	ADP	_	20 Maddie	case
20	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 scattered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stood	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 stood	nsubj
23	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Maddie	acl:relcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 stood	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 knee	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 knee	det
27	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 knee	amod
28	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stood	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 scuffle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Maddie		a park scuffle	week		tree rules
2	pull up	past · passive		a police car				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	scatter	past	everyone				except Maddie	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	stand	past	Maddie		there		with a muddy knee	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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