Just one more game, sentence 10

But his mum asked the question that ended the argument: «Then why did you start a forty-minute match ten minutes before dinner?» Leo had no answer.

Who acts: mum, question, you, Leo · What happens: ask, end, start, have · To what, where: question, argument, minute match, answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just one more game» 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 (mum, question, you, Leo), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 asked	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ended	nsubj
8	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 question	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 argument	det
10	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ended	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 start	punct
13	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 start	advmod
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 start	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 start	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 start	nsubj
17	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 match	det
19	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 minute	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 forty	punct
21	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 match	compound
22	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 start	obj
23	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 minutes	nummod
24	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 start	obl:unmarked
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 dinner	case
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 start	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
29	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	parataxis
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 answer	det
32	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	One more's mum	the question		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	end	past	the question	the argument		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality argument=Eventuality
3	start in a quote	past · do-support	you	a minute match	before dinner; then; minute	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality
4	have	past	Leo	no answer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=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:417-just-one-more-game.lesson:10.

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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