«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 10
His teacher smoothed it out — the juice was only on the empty half — and raised one eyebrow.
Who acts: teacher, juice · What happens: smooth out, be, raise · To what, where: juice, empty half, one eyebrow
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 (teacher, juice), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smoothed | nsubj |
| 3 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 smoothed | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 smoothed | compound:prt |
| 6 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 juice | det |
| 8 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 half | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 half | cop |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 half | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 half | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 half | det |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 half | amod |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 smoothed | parataxis |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 raised | cc |
| 17 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smoothed | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 eyebrow | nummod |
| 19 | eyebrow | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raised | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smoothed | 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 | smooth out | past | Jayden's teacher | juice | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the juice | the empty half | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | Jayden's teacher not said here | one eyebrow | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyebrow=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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:10.
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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