Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 16
Noah bought a game for his little sister Isla as well as his own, and Isla followed him round the house for a week saying «thank you» until he begged her to stop.
Who acts: Noah, Isla · What happens: buy, follow, say, thank, beg, stop · To what, where: game, Noah, house, you, aunt · 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 (Noah, Isla), 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 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 bought | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 game | det |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bought | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sister | amod |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 game | nmod |
| 9 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sister | appos |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 bought | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 own | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 own | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 well | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 17 | Isla | Isla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | nsubj |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bought | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | obj |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 week | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 week | det |
| 25 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obl |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 followed | advcl |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 thank | punct |
| 28 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 thank | obj |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 thank | punct |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 33 begged | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 begged | nsubj |
| 33 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 followed | advcl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 begged | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 stop | mark |
| 36 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 begged | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | Noah | a game | for Noah's little sister; well property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent game=Theme for sister=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Isla | Noah | the house | week | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme round house=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Isla not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 5 | beg speech: request | past | Isla | aunt | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | Isla not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:16.
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, 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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