Family game night, sentence 8
She was grinning: «Six years I've been waiting for someone to beat me properly.» She hadn't let him win, and that is exactly why the win felt so good.
Who acts: mum, dad, Theo, that, win · What happens: grin, wait, beat, not let, win, be · To what, where: dad, Theo · 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 (mum, dad, Theo, that), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grinning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grinning | aux |
| 3 | grinning | grin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 « | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 grinning | punct |
| 6 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 waiting | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 waiting | nsubj |
| 9 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 waiting | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 waiting | aux |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 grinning | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 someone | case |
| 13 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 waiting | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 beat | mark |
| 15 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 someone | acl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 beat | obj |
| 17 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 15 beat | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grinning | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 grinning | punct |
| 20 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 let | advmod |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grinning | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 felt | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 felt | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 why | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 why | cop |
| 30 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 31 why | advmod |
| 31 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 felt | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 win | det |
| 33 | win | win | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 felt | nsubj |
| 34 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grinning | conj |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 good | advmod |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 felt | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grinning | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grin | past · progressive | mum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Mia's dad = dad | year | for someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | beat in a quote | to-infinitive | Mia's dad = dad not said here | Mia's dad = dad | properly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | |||
| 4 | not let | past | mum | Theo | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | win | infinitive | Theo not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | that | exactly, why property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | feel | past | the win | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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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