In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem, sentence 3

Kai looked at the Lego set he had wanted, at forty pounds, in the shop window, and said a word his mum pretended not to hear.

Who acts: Kai, mum · What happens: look, want, say, pretend, not hear · To what, where: Lego set, forty pounds, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «In-game purchases and skins: the dancing banana problem» 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 (Kai, mum), 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	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 set	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	Lego	Lego	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 set	compound
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wanted	aux
9	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 set	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pounds	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 pounds	case
12	forty	forty	NUM	NumType=Card	13 pounds	nummod
13	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wanted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 window	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 window	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 window	det
17	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 window	compound
18	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 word	det
23	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mum	nmod:poss
25	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pretended	nsubj
26	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 word	acl:relcl
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hear	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 hear	mark
29	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 pretended	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Kai			in the shop window; at the Lego set	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at set=Theme
2	want	past · perfect	Kai	the Lego set not said here	forty pounds		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot set=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Kai not said here	a word			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	pretend	past	Kai's mum	a word not said here			tree rules
5	not hear	to-infinitive	Kai's mum not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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:412-in-game-purchases-and-skins.lesson:3.

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 ×2, 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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