Making peace between the streets, sentence 0
For as long as anyone could remember, Maddie's street and Station Road had been at war — over the rec, the corner shop, the best tree, and mostly over who had started it, which nobody could actually remember.
Who acts: anyone, street, corner shop, nobody · What happens: remember, be, start · To what, where: war, tree, corner shop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Making peace between the streets» 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 (anyone, street, corner shop, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 shop | obl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 remember | mark |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 remember | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 remember | aux |
| 7 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 long | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remember | punct |
| 9 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 street | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Maddie | case |
| 11 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 war | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Road | cc |
| 13 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Road | compound |
| 14 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 street | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 war | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 war | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 war | case |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remember | ccomp |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 rec | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rec | det |
| 22 | rec | rec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shop | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shop | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shop | det |
| 25 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shop | compound |
| 26 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tree | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 29 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 tree | amod |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shop | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 started | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 started | cc |
| 33 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 35 who | advmod |
| 34 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 35 who | mark |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 started | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 started | aux |
| 37 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 shop | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 started | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 remember | punct |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 remember | obj |
| 41 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 44 remember | nsubj |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 remember | aux |
| 43 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 44 remember | advmod |
| 44 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 shop | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 shop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | could | anyone | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Maddie's street and Station Road | war | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | past · perfect | the corner shop | tree | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | remember | could | nobody | the corner shop | actually property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent which=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:394-making-peace-between-the-streets.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): 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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