When the police come, sentence 3
Kieran had not taken it, but he had been there, laughing, while an older boy rode off.
Who acts: Kieran, older boy · What happens: not take, be, laugh, ride off · To what, where: officer
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 (Kieran, older boy), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 taken | advmod |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 there | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 there | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 there | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 there | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 there | cop |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 taken | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughing | punct |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 there | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rode | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 rode | mark |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | nsubj |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 rode | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · perfect | Kieran | officer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Kieran | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | Kieran not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ride off | past | a older boy | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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:3.
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): R7-rel-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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