Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 15

Priya used her aunt's gift card to buy her aunt's favourite character in the game, and her aunt laughed so much that she started playing herself.

Who acts: Priya, aunt · What happens: use, buy, laugh, start, play · To what, where: gift card, favourite character, game, aunt

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 (Priya, aunt), 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	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 aunt	nmod:poss
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 card	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 aunt	case
6	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 card	compound
7	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 buy	mark
9	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 aunt	nmod:poss
11	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 character	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 aunt	case
13	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 character	amod
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buy	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 game	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 game	det
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 character	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laughed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laughed	cc
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 aunt	nmod:poss
21	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laughed	nsubj
22	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 much	advmod
24	much	much	ADV	_	22 laughed	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 started	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 started	nsubj
27	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laughed	advcl
28	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 started	xcomp
29	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 playing	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	use	past	Priya	Priya's aunt's gift card		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient
2	buy	to-infinitive	Priya not said here	Priya's aunt's favourite character	the game	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme
3	laugh	past	Priya's aunt			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	start	past	aunt			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	play	gerund	aunt not said here	aunt		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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:15.

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): 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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