Screen-time rules and arguments, sentence 2
The arguments did not vanish, but they shrank from a nightly war to the odd grumble, and Kai admitted that the warning helped most, because he could finish a match instead of being yanked out of it.
Who acts: arguments, Kai, warning · What happens: not vanish, shrink, admit, help, finish, yank · To what, where: match, warning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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 (arguments, Kai, warning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 arguments | det |
| 2 | arguments | argument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 vanish | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vanish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 vanish | advmod |
| 5 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shrank | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 shrank | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shrank | nsubj |
| 9 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vanish | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 war | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 war | det |
| 12 | nightly | nightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 war | amod |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shrank | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 grumble | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grumble | det |
| 16 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grumble | amod |
| 17 | grumble | grumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shrank | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 admitted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 admitted | cc |
| 20 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 admitted | nsubj |
| 21 | admitted | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shrank | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 helped | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 warning | det |
| 24 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 helped | nsubj |
| 25 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 admitted | ccomp |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 helped | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 finish | punct |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 finish | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 finish | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 finish | aux |
| 31 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 helped | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 match | det |
| 33 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 finish | obj |
| 34 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 37 yanked | mark |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 instead | fixed |
| 36 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 yanked | aux:pass |
| 37 | yanked | yank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 finish | advcl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 yanked | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vanish | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not vanish | past · do-support | the arguments | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shrink | past | arguments = argument | to the odd grumble; from a nightly war | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from war=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | past | Kai | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help | past | the warning | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | finish | could | Kai | a match | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector match=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | yank | gerund · passive | Kai not said here | warning | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
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:421-screen-time-rules-and-arguments.lesson:2.
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 ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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