When the police come, sentence 21
Later that term a community police officer came to Jake's school to talk about staying safe and street fights.
Who acts: police officer · What happens: come, talk, stay · To what, where: term, school, fights
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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 term | det |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 officer | det |
| 5 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 police | compound |
| 6 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 officer | compound |
| 7 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 school | case |
| 10 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 school | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Jake | case |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 talk | mark |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | advcl |
| 15 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 16 staying | mark |
| 16 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 talk | advcl |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 staying | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 street | cc |
| 19 | street | street | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 safe | conj |
| 20 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 staying | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | 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 | come | past | a police officer | that term | Jake's school | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | a police officer not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stay | gerund | a police officer not said here | fights | safe property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fight=Location |
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:21.
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, R7-rel-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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