Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 22

Noah told a player his house was near the big football stadium, which felt like just chatting, until his dad explained that small clues can help someone find you.

Who acts: Noah, house, big football stadium, dad, small clues, someone · What happens: tell, be, feel, chat, explain, help · To what, where: player, someone, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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 (Noah, house, big football stadium, 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	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 player	det
4	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 near	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 near	cop
8	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stadium	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stadium	amod
11	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stadium	compound
12	stadium	stadium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stadium	acl:relcl
16	like	like	SCONJ	_	18 chatting	mark
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 chatting	advmod
18	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 felt	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 explained	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 explained	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 dad	nmod:poss
22	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 explained	nsubj
23	explained	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 chatting	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 help	mark
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 clues	amod
26	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 help	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 help	aux
28	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 explained	ccomp
29	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 help	obj
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 help	xcomp
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 find	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Noah	a player		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent player=Recipient
2	is	past	Noah's house		near property	tree rules
3	feel	past	the big football stadium			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	chat speech: other	gerund	the big football stadium not said here			vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	explain speech: assert	past	Noah's dad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	help	can	small clues	someone		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary clause=Theme
7	find	infinitive	someone not said here	you		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic

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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:22.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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