Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 13

Mr Pryce invited the parents of both streets into the school hall, with tea and biscuits, to talk about the fights, and the community police officer started playing football on the rec on Saturday mornings with kids from both streets — he was terrible in goal and everyone loved it.

Who acts: Mr Pryce, police officer, officer, everyone · What happens: invite, talk, start, play, be, love · To what, where: parents, school hall, football, rec, goal

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 (Mr Pryce, police officer, officer, 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	Mr	mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pryce	flat
2	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 invited	nsubj
3	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parents	det
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 invited	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 streets	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 streets	det
8	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 parents	nmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hall	det
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hall	compound
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invited	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tea	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 tea	case
15	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 invited	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 biscuits	cc
17	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tea	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 talk	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 talk	mark
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 invited	advcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 fights	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fights	det
23	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 talk	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 started	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 started	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 officer	det
27	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 police	compound
28	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 officer	compound
29	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 started	nsubj
30	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 invited	conj
31	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 started	xcomp
32	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 playing	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 rec	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 rec	det
35	rec	rec	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 playing	obl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 mornings	case
37	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 mornings	compound
38	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 playing	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 kids	case
40	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 playing	obl
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 streets	case
42	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	43 streets	det
43	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 kids	nmod
44	—	-	PUNCT	_	47 terrible	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 terrible	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 terrible	cop
47	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 invited	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 goal	case
49	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 terrible	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 loved	cc
51	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	52 loved	nsubj
52	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 terrible	conj
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 loved	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 invited	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	past	Mr Pryce		the parents of both streets	the school hall		with tea and biscuits	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
2	talk	to-infinitive	Mr Pryce not said here					about the fights	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about fight=Topic
3	start	past	the police officer						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play	gerund	the police officer not said here	football		the rec	morning	with kids from both streets	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent football=Theme with kid=Co-Agent
5	is	past	officer			goal		terrible property	tree rules
6	love	past	everyone	football					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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:13.

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, 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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