Lily, the calm «princess», sentence 16

Her mum used to say «be ladylike» when Lily ran in the playground, until Lily asked what «ladylike» means.

Who acts: mum, Lily, ladylike · What happens: use, say, be, run, ask, mean · To what, where: playground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lily, the calm «princess»» 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 (mum, Lily, ladylike), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mum	nmod:poss
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	xcomp
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 ladylike	punct
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 ladylike	cop
8	ladylike	ladylike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 ladylike	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 ran	advmod
11	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 playground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 playground	det
15	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 asked	mark
18	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	advcl
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 means	obj
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 ladylike	punct
22	ladylike	ladylike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 means	nsubj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 ladylike	punct
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 asked	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	Lily's mum			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Lily's mum not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	infinitive			ladylike property	tree rules
4	run	past	Lily	the playground		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in playground=Trajectory
5	ask speech: ask	past	Lily			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	mean	present	ladylike			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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