Whose turn is it?, sentence 9
Then he said guests should get longer turns; Mia's mum said guests may go first, but every turn stays the same length.
Who acts: Ruby, guests, mum, turn · What happens: say, get, go, stay · To what, where: longer turns, same length · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (Ruby, guests, mum, turn), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 turns | amod |
| 8 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Mia | case |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 14 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stays | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 stays | cc |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 turn | det |
| 21 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stays | nsubj |
| 22 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 length | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 length | amod |
| 25 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stays | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ruby | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | should | guests | longer turns | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mia's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | may | guests | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stay | present | every turn | the same length | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme length=Location |
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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:9.
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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