When the police come, sentence 4
The officer asked calm, plain questions and wrote Kieran's name in her notebook.
Who acts: officer, Kieran · What happens: ask, write, name · To what, where: calm plain questions, name, notebook
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 (officer, Kieran), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 officer | det |
| 2 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 questions | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 questions | punct |
| 6 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 questions | amod |
| 7 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrote | cc |
| 9 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 10 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Kieran | case |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrote | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 notebook | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 notebook | nmod:poss |
| 15 | notebook | notebook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrote | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the officer | calm plain questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | write | past | the officer not said here | Kieran's name | mum's notebook | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in notebook=Destination | |||
| 3 | name | Kieran | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:4.
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): R6-punct-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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