Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 13
Ruby's friend asked to borrow her gift card, and Ruby said no, kindly — her mum had said the card was for her, and money between friends goes wrong when the rules are fuzzy.
Who acts: friend, Ruby, mum, card, money, rules · What happens: ask, borrow, say, be, go · To what, where: gift card · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend, Ruby, mum, card), 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 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ruby | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 borrow | mark |
| 6 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 card | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 card | compound |
| 9 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 borrow | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | conj |
| 14 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 16 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 21 said | advmod |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 kindly | punct |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mum | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 card | det |
| 23 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 her | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 her | cop |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 goes | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 goes | cc |
| 29 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 goes | nsubj |
| 30 | between | between | ADP | _ | 31 friends | case |
| 31 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 money | nmod |
| 32 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | conj |
| 33 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 goes | xcomp |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 fuzzy | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rules | det |
| 36 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 fuzzy | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 fuzzy | cop |
| 38 | fuzzy | fuzzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 goes | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Ruby's friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | borrow not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ruby's friend not said here | friend's gift card | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ruby | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | friend's mum | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the card | for friend | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | present | money between friends | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | present | the rules | fuzzy property | 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:415-gift-cards-and-birthday-money.lesson:13.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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