Family game night, sentence 2
It turned out he had driven a delivery van for thirty years and «knew how corners work».
Who acts: It, whole, corners · What happens: turn out, drive, know, work · To what, where: delivery van · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, whole, corners), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 turned | compound:prt |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 driven | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 driven | aux |
| 6 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 van | det |
| 8 | delivery | delivery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 van | compound |
| 9 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 driven | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 driven | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 work | advmod |
| 17 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 work | nsubj |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 knew | ccomp |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | drive | past · perfect | whole | a delivery van | year | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent van=Theme | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | work in a quote | present | corners | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: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): R6-punct-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.
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