Parents' rules for big games, sentence 15
Noah's mum simply said, «Not until you're 16, and I will not change my mind,» and she meant it, so Noah stopped asking and saved his breath for something else.
Who acts: mum, you, Noah, my · What happens: say, not be, not change, mean, stop, ask · To what, where: 16, mind, breath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents' rules for big games» 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 (mum, you, Noah, my), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Noah | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 16 | punct |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 16 | punct |
| 8 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 16 | advmod |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 16 | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 16 | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 16 | cop |
| 12 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 change | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 change | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 change | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 change | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 change | advmod |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mind | punct |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 mind | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 meant | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meant | nsubj |
| 25 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 meant | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stopped | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 stopped | advmod |
| 29 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 stopped | nsubj |
| 30 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 change | parataxis |
| 31 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 stopped | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 saved | cc |
| 33 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stopped | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 breath | nmod:poss |
| 35 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 saved | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 something | case |
| 37 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 saved | obl |
| 38 | else | else | ADV | _ | 37 something | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Noah's mum | simply property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | you | 16 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not change in a quote | future | Noah's mum = mum | my mind | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | past | mum | mind | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | Noah | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Noah not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | save | past | Noah not said here | Noah's breath | for something | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme for something=Source | |||
| 8 | mind in a quote | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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:404-parents-rules-for-big-games.lesson:15.
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. 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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