Gift cards and birthday money: making it last, sentence 17
Jayden kept a notebook of everything he bought with his gift cards; at the end of the year he read it and saw that most of the things he had paid for he had never really used.
Who acts: Jayden · What happens: keep, buy, read, see, pay, not use · To what, where: notebook, end, things, most · 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 (Jayden), 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 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 notebook | det |
| 4 | notebook | notebook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 everything | case |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 notebook | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bought | nsubj |
| 8 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 everything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 cards | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cards | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cards | compound |
| 12 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bought | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 read | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 read | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 year | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 read | nsubj |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 read | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 read | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 used | mark |
| 26 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 used | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 things | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 things | det |
| 29 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 most | nmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 paid | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 paid | aux |
| 32 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 things | acl:relcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 paid | case |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 used | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 used | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 used | advmod |
| 37 | really | really | ADV | _ | 38 used | advmod |
| 38 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Jayden | a notebook of everything | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | Jayden | with Jayden's gift cards | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | read | past | Jayden | notebook | at the end of the year | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at end=Value | |||
| 4 | see | past | Jayden not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | pay | past · perfect | Jayden | the things not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Asset | ||||
| 6 | not use | past · perfect | Jayden | most of the things | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient |
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:17.
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 ×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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