Left out without a console, sentence 3
Zara explained it so well that half the table played it at break, and by Friday two boys were arguing about its rules instead of the game's.
Who acts: Zara, table, two boys, game · What happens: explain, play, argue, rule · To what, where: game, break
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 (Zara, table, two boys, game), 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 | 2 explained | nsubj |
| 2 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 explained | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 explained | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 played | mark |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 table | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 played | nsubj |
| 10 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 explained | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 played | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 break | case |
| 13 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 played | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arguing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 arguing | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Friday | case |
| 17 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arguing | obl |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 boys | nummod |
| 19 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arguing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 arguing | aux |
| 21 | arguing | argue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 played | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 rules | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 rules | nmod:poss |
| 24 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arguing | obl |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 28 game | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 game | det |
| 28 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arguing | obl |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 game | case |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 explained | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | past | Zara | game | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | play | past | half table | game | break | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | argue speech: disagree | past · progressive | two boys | friday | about game's rules; instead the game | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about rule=Topic | |||
| 4 | rule | game | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:3.
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, R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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