Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 11
His mum suggested half for games and half for saving; he grumbled like a grumpy pirate, but agreed.
Who acts: mum, half, Theo · What happens: suggest, save, grumble, agree · To what, where: half
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gift cards and birthday money: making it last» 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 (mum, half, Theo), 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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suggested | nsubj |
| 3 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 suggested | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 games | case |
| 6 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suggested | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 half | cc |
| 8 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 half | conj |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 saving | mark |
| 10 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 half | acl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 grumbled | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grumbled | nsubj |
| 13 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suggested | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 pirate | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pirate | det |
| 16 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pirate | amod |
| 17 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grumbled | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 agreed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 agreed | cc |
| 20 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grumbled | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | Theo's mum | half and half | for games | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent half=Topic | |||
| 2 | save | gerund | half not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grumble speech: other | past | Theo | like a grumpy pirate | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | past | Theo not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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