Sore losers and button-mashers, sentence 1
It bounced onto the floor, the battery cover snapped off, and Theo had to tell his mum.
Who acts: Theo · What happens: bounce, snap off, have, tell · To what, where: controller, floor, battery cover, mum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore losers and button-mashers» 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 (Theo), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bounced | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 5 floor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bounced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 snapped | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cover | det |
| 8 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cover | compound |
| 9 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bounced | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 snapped | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 14 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bounced | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mum | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bounced | 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 | bounce | past · passive | controller | the floor | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme onto floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | snap off | past · passive | the battery cover | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Theo | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Theo not said here | Theo's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient |
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:398-sore-losers-and-button-mashers.lesson:1.
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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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