«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 12
Nobody checked, so she got away with it — and the next week the same sums came up in a test and she got a bad mark, because nobody had helped her.
Who acts: Nobody, Ruby, same sums · What happens: check, get away, come up, get, help · To what, where: test, bad mark, Ruby
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 (Nobody, Ruby, same sums), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 checked | nsubj |
| 2 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 checked | parataxis |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | obl |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 week | amod |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sums | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sums | amod |
| 17 | sums | sum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 checked | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 test | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 test | det |
| 22 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 mark | det |
| 27 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mark | amod |
| 28 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 helped | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 33 helped | mark |
| 31 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 helped | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 helped | aux |
| 33 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 got | advcl |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 helped | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | past | Nobody | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get away | past | Ruby | with juice; away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come up | past | the same sums | a test | week | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in test=Location | |||
| 4 | get | past | Ruby | a bad mark | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | help | past · perfect | nobody | Ruby | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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:12.
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. 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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