Left out without a console, sentence 1

Zara's family could not afford any console, so she said she «just didn't like games» and stared at her sandwich.

Who acts: family · What happens: not afford, say, not like, stare · To what, where: console, games · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Left out without a console» 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 (family), 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	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 family	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Zara	case
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afford	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 afford	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 afford	advmod
6	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 console	det
8	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 afford	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afford	parataxis
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 like	advmod
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 like	advmod
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
19	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 like	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 like	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stared	cc
22	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 sandwich	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sandwich	nmod:poss
25	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stared	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afford	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not afford	could	Zara's family	any console		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	family			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not like in a quote	past · do-support	family	games		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot game=Theme
4	stare	past	family not said here		at family's sandwich	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sandwich=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:399-left-out-without-a-console.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): 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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