Left out without a console, sentence 17

Leo's console was his uncle's old one, and the kids laughed at the blocky graphics, until they found the old two-player games were hilarious and started asking to come round for «the retro ones».

Who acts: console, kids, graphics, old player games · What happens: be, laugh, find, start, ask, come round · To what, where: old one, blocky graphics · 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 (console, kids, graphics, old player games), 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 console	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Leo	case
3	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 uncle	nmod:poss
6	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 uncle	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laughed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laughed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kids	det
13	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laughed	nsubj
14	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 graphics	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 graphics	det
17	blocky	blocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 graphics	amod
18	graphics	graphic	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laughed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 found	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laughed	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 games	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 games	amod
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 player	nummod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 two	punct
27	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 games	compound
28	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hilarious	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hilarious	cop
30	hilarious	hilarious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 found	ccomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 started	cc
32	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laughed	conj
33	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 started	xcomp
34	to	to	PART	_	35 come	mark
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 asking	xcomp
36	round	round	ADV	_	35 come	advmod
37	for	for	ADP	_	41 ones	case
38	«	«	PUNCT	_	41 ones	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ones	det
40	retro	retro	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 ones	amod
41	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 come	obl
42	»	»	PUNCT	_	41 ones	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Leo's console	Leo's uncle's old one			tree rules
2	laugh	past	the kids		the blocky graphics		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	graphics = graphic				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the old player games			hilarious property	tree rules
5	start	past	the kids not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	ask speech: ask	gerund	the kids not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	come round not said to happen	to-infinitive	the kids not said here			for the retro ones; round property	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:399-left-out-without-a-console.lesson:17.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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