When the police come, sentence 16
And one evening Lily saw older boys fighting near her house; when one of them lay still on the pavement and didn't get up, she rang 999 and stayed on the line from her doorway until the ambulance came.
Who acts: Lily, older boys, one, ambulance · What happens: see, fight, lie, not get up, ring, stay · To what, where: older boys, house, pavement, 999, line
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 (Lily, older boys, one, ambulance), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 boys | amod |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 boys | acl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fighting | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 lay | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 rang | advcl |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 pavement | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pavement | det |
| 21 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 get | advmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lay | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 get | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rang | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 rang | nsubj |
| 29 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 30 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 rang | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stayed | cc |
| 32 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 rang | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 line | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 line | det |
| 35 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stayed | obl |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 doorway | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 doorway | nmod:poss |
| 38 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stayed | obl |
| 39 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 42 came | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 ambulance | det |
| 41 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stayed | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Lily | older boys | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fight | gerund | older boys not said here | Lily's house | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | one of teacher | the pavement | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pavement=Location | |||
| 4 | not get up | past · do-support | one of teacher not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | ring | past | Lily | 999 | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 999=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stay | past | Lily not said here | the line | from Lily's doorway | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on line=Location | |||
| 7 | come | past | the ambulance | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:16.
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): R8-pos-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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