What the numbers on the box mean, sentence 12
His dad turned the box over and showed him the little pictures that say why a game got its number: a fist for violence, a speech bubble for bad language, a spider for scary content.
Who acts: dad, little pictures, game · What happens: turn over, show, say, get · To what, where: box, little pictures, rating, number · 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 (dad, little pictures, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 turned | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 showed | cc |
| 8 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 showed | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pictures | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pictures | amod |
| 12 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 showed | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pictures | acl:relcl |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 got | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 game | det |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 number | nmod:poss |
| 20 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 fist | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fist | det |
| 23 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 number | appos |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 violence | case |
| 25 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fist | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bubble | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bubble | det |
| 28 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bubble | compound |
| 29 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fist | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 language | case |
| 31 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 language | amod |
| 32 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bubble | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spider | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 spider | det |
| 35 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bubble | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 content | case |
| 37 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 content | amod |
| 38 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spider | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over | past | rating's dad | the box | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | past | rating's dad not said here | the little pictures | rating | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient picture=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the little pictures | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | get | past | a game | game's number | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
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:12.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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