Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 12
Zara got a gift card for a game she does not even play, felt a little disappointed, thanked her uncle anyway, and swapped it with her mum for one she could use.
Who acts: Zara, mum · What happens: get, not play, feel, thank, swap, use · To what, where: gift card, game, uncle
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 (Zara, 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 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 card | det |
| 4 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 card | compound |
| 5 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 game | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 game | det |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 play | nsubj |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 play | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 play | advmod |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 play | advmod |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 game | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 disappointed | obl |
| 18 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thanked | punct |
| 20 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 22 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thanked | obj |
| 23 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 20 thanked | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 swapped | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 swapped | cc |
| 26 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 swapped | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 mum | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mum | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swapped | obl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 swapped | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 use | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 use | aux |
| 35 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 one | acl:relcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Zara | a gift card | for a game | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent card=Theme for game=Source | |||
| 2 | not play | present · do-support | Zara | a game not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Zara not said here | disappointed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | Zara not said here | Zara's uncle | anyway property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent uncle=Theme | |||
| 5 | swap | past | Zara not said here | game | with Zara's mum; for one | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent it=Theme with mum=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | use | could | mum | vn eat-39.1 «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:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×2, 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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