Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 7
Those words did not stop anything; they just told the children nobody was coming.
Who acts: words, nobody · What happens: not stop, tell, come · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (words, nobody), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 stop | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 told | advmod |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 nobody | compound |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 coming | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | aux |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | past · do-support | that words | anything | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | words = word | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | nobody | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:7.
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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