How to say stop, sentence 4
The next morning, when Tom tugged her ponytail in the line, she turned round and said it exactly like in the mirror.
Who acts: Tom · What happens: tug, turn round, say · To what, where: ponytail, line · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» 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 (Tom), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 tugged | advmod |
| 6 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tugged | nsubj |
| 7 | tugged | tug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | advcl |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ponytail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ponytail | ponytail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tugged | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 line | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 line | det |
| 12 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tugged | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tugged | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obj |
| 20 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 24 mirror | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 mirror | case |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mirror | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mirror | det |
| 24 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tug | past | Tom | Tom's ponytail | the line | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ponytail=Patient | |||
| 2 | turn round | past | Tom | morning | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Tom not said here | ponytail | like the mirror | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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:388-how-to-say-stop.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): no change. 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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