What the numbers on the box mean, sentence 1

«Does that mean it takes eighteen hours?» His mum laughed so loudly that a man in the next aisle turned round.

Who acts: that, it, mum, man · What happens: mean, take, laugh, turn round · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What the numbers on the box mean» 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 (that, it, mum, man), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct
2	Does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 laughed	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 takes	nsubj
6	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	ccomp
7	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hours	nummod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 takes	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct
11	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mum	nmod:poss
12	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	nsubj
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 loudly	advmod
15	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	13 laughed	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 turned	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 turned	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 aisle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 aisle	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 aisle	amod
22	aisle	aisle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	nmod
23	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 laughed	advcl
24	round	round	ADV	_	23 turned	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present · do-support	that			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	present	it	hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	Kai's mum		loudly property	tree rules
4	turn round	past	a man in the next aisle		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:400-what-the-numbers-on-the-box-mean.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): R5-strong ×2, 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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