Family game night, sentence 13

Ruby taught her dad the moves, and he danced like a wardrobe falling down the stairs, but he kept going, laughing louder every round, and Ruby laughed so much she could not dance either.

Who acts: Ruby, dad, wardrobe · What happens: teach, dance, fall down, keep, go, laugh · To what, where: moves, dad, stairs, round

This is a sentence of the lesson «Family game night» 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 (Ruby, dad, wardrobe), 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	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 dad	nmod:poss
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 taught	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moves	det
6	moves	move	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taught	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 danced	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 danced	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 danced	nsubj
10	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 taught	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 wardrobe	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wardrobe	det
13	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 danced	obl
14	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wardrobe	acl
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stairs	det
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 falling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 kept	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 kept	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 taught	conj
22	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 kept	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laughing	punct
24	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 going	xcomp
25	louder	loud	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 laughing	advmod
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 round	det
27	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laughing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 laughed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 laughed	cc
30	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 laughed	nsubj
31	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 taught	conj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	31 laughed	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dance	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 dance	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 dance	advmod
37	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 laughed	ccomp
38	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 dance	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 taught	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	Ruby	the moves	Ruby's dad		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient move=Topic
2	dance	past	dad			like a wardrobe	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall down	gerund	a wardrobe not said here	the stairs			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result
4	keep	past	dad				tree rules
5	go	gerund	dad not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	laugh	gerund	dad not said here	every round		loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	laugh	past	Ruby				tree rules
8	not dance	could	Ruby			either property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:425-family-game-night.lesson:13.

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 ×3. 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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