Account swaps and passwords: the door key of your game, sentence 2
His cousin, reading over his shoulder with a mouthful of crisps, said «that's the oldest scam in the book, mate.
Who acts: cousin, that · What happens: read, say, be · To what, where: shoulder, oldest scam, book · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Account swaps and passwords: the door key of your game» 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 (cousin, that), 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 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reading | punct |
| 4 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 cousin | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 shoulder | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reading | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 mouthful | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mouthful | det |
| 10 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reading | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crisps | case |
| 12 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mouthful | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cousin | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 scam | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 scam | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scam | det |
| 19 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 scam | amod |
| 20 | scam | scam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 book | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 book | det |
| 23 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 scam | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 25 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | vocative |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | Kai's cousin not said here | Kai's shoulder | with a mouthful of crisps | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kai's cousin | mate vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | the oldest scam | the book | tree rules |
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:411-account-swaps-and-passwords.lesson:2.
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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