Homework first?, sentence 9

Theo's phone buzzed every two minutes with his friends arguing about the GTA 6 trailer, a game rated 18 that none of them was even allowed to play.

Who acts: phone, friends, game, none · What happens: buzz, argue, rate, allow, play · To what, where: 18, none, that

This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework first?» 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 (phone, friends, game, none), 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	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 phone	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Theo	case
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buzzed	nsubj
4	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 minutes	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 minutes	nummod
7	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buzzed	obl:unmarked
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 friends	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buzzed	obl
11	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 friends	acl
12	about	about	ADP	_	16 trailer	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trailer	det
14	GTA	GTA	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 trailer	compound
15	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 trailer	compound
16	trailer	trailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arguing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 game	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 game	det
19	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trailer	appos
20	rated	rate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 game	acl
21	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 rated	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 play	obj
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	28 allowed	nsubj:pass
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 none	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 allowed	aux:pass
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 allowed	advmod
28	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 game	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 play	mark
30	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 allowed	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 buzzed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past	Theo's phone		minute	with phone's friends	vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with friend=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	phone's friends not said here			about the GTA 6 trailer	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about trailer=Topic
3	rate	participle	a game not said here	18			vn price-54.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 18=Theme
4	allow	past · passive		none			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	none not said here	that			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:419-homework-first.lesson:9.

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): no change. 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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