Parents' rules for big games, sentence 4
His parents laughed so hard his dad had to sit down.
Who acts: parents, dad · What happens: laugh, have, sit down
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 (parents, dad), 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 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 hard | advmod |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dad | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sit | mark |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | down | down | PART | _ | 10 sit | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | puppy's parents | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | puppy's dad | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit down | to-infinitive | puppy's dad not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:4.
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): no change. 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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