«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 1
«Grand,» said Mrs Kelly, «bring me the dog's note then.» He did the homework at lunch and a note still went home, now about the homework AND the lie.
Who acts: Mrs Kelly, Kelly, note, dog · What happens: say, bring, do, go, note · To what, where: note, Mrs Kelly, homework, lunch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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 (Mrs Kelly, Kelly, note, dog), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kelly | compound |
| 7 | Kelly | Kelly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | iobj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 note | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 dog | case |
| 15 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 bring | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 19 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 homework | det |
| 22 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 lunch | case |
| 24 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 note | det |
| 27 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | nsubj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 did | conj |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 homework | punct |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 homework | advmod |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 homework | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 homework | det |
| 35 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 36 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lie | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 lie | det |
| 38 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 homework | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mrs Kelly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the dog's note | Mrs Kelly = kelly | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination note=Theme | |||
| 3 | do | past | Kelly | the homework | lunch | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | go | past | a note | still | about the homework and the lie; home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about homework=Location | |||
| 5 | note in a quote | the dog | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:1.
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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