Fighting games at a friend's house, sentence 8
When Zara from next door knocked to join in, Theo said, «Nah, it's for boys.» Zara rolled her eyes: «I beat you at every racing game you own, Theo.»
Who acts: Zara, Theo, door, Nobody, you · What happens: knock, join in, say, be, roll, beat · To what, where: eyes, you, racing game · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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, Theo, door, Nobody), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 knocked | mark |
| 2 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 knocked | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Zara | nmod |
| 6 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 join | mark |
| 8 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 knocked | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 join | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Theo | punct |
| 11 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nah | punct |
| 15 | Nah | nah | INTJ | Number=Sing | 20 boys | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 boys | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 boys | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 boys | cop |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 boys | case |
| 20 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 boys | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 boys | punct |
| 23 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 rolled | nsubj |
| 24 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 rolled | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 rolled | punct |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 beat | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 beat | nsubj |
| 30 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 rolled | parataxis |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 beat | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 game | case |
| 33 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 game | det |
| 34 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 game | compound |
| 35 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beat | obl |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 own | nsubj |
| 37 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 game | acl:relcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beat | punct |
| 39 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 beat | vocative |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 beat | punct |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | Zara from next door | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | join in | to-infinitive | Zara from next door not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Theo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | door | for boys | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | roll | past | Zara | Zara's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | beat in a quote | present | Nobody | you | every racing game | Theo vocative | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||
| 7 | own in a quote | present | you | every racing game not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot game=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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:8.
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, R7-rel-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.
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