Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 0
Mrs Okafor keeps a little notebook, and one day she noticed something in it: the same group of boys ended up fighting every Friday, just after swimming, when everyone was tired, hungry and wet-haired.
Who acts: Mrs, boys, everyone · What happens: keep, notice, end up, fight, swim, be · To what, where: little notebook, something, notebook
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (Mrs, boys, everyone), 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 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | Okafor | Okafor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs | flat |
| 3 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 notebook | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 notebook | amod |
| 6 | notebook | notebook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeps | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 noticed | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeps | conj |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 noticed | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 something | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 group | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 group | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 group | amod |
| 19 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 something | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 boys | case |
| 21 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 group | nmod |
| 22 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 boys | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 ended | compound:prt |
| 24 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 ended | xcomp |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 Friday | det |
| 26 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 fighting | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 swimming | punct |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 swimming | advmod |
| 29 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 swimming | mark |
| 30 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 fighting | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tired | punct |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 tired | advmod |
| 33 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 35 tired | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 tired | cop |
| 35 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fighting | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hungry | punct |
| 37 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tired | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 haired | cc |
| 39 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 haired | amod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 wet | punct |
| 41 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tired | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeps | 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 | keep | present | Mrs | a little notebook | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | Mrs | something | notebook | day | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | end up | past | boys not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | gerund | boys not said here | friday | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | swim | gerund | boys not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | everyone | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | everyone not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | be | everyone not said here | tree rules |
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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:0.
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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