Teams and voice chat, sentence 6
Meanwhile Zara played the whole evening whispering, because her baby brother was asleep next door — and her whispered «there's one behind you» was somehow the scariest thing anyone heard all night.
Who acts: Zara, baby brother, one, anyone · What happens: play, whisper, be, hear · To what, where: asleep next door, scariest thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teams and voice chat» 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, baby brother, one, anyone), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 3 played | advmod |
| 2 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 evening | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 evening | amod |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whispering | compound |
| 7 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 played | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 door | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 door | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | compound |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 door | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 door | cop |
| 14 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 door | amod |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 door | amod |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | advcl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 thing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thing | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 whispered | nmod:poss |
| 20 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 thing | nsubj |
| 21 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 's | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 's | expl |
| 23 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 whispered | ccomp |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 's | nsubj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 » | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 's | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thing | cop |
| 29 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 32 thing | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 thing | det |
| 31 | scariest | scary | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 thing | amod |
| 32 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | conj |
| 33 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 heard | nsubj |
| 34 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thing | acl:relcl |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 night | det |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | 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 | play | past | Zara | meanwhile property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | gerund | Zara not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Zara's baby brother | asleep next door | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | one you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the scariest thing | somehow property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hear | past | anyone | the scariest thing not said here | night | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=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:405-teams-and-voice-chat.lesson:6.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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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