«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 14

Kai in Manchester said «I left it at home, sir» on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; on Thursday nobody believed it any more, and his teacher rang home.

Who acts: Kai, nobody, teacher · What happens: say, leave, believe, ring · To what, where: mark, home · 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 (Kai, nobody, teacher), 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	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Manchester	case
3	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kai	nmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
12	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	vocative
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 Monday	case
15	Monday	Monday	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Tuesday	punct
17	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Monday	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Wednesday	cc
19	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Tuesday	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 believed	punct
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 Thursday	case
22	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 believed	obl
23	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 believed	nsubj
24	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 believed	obj
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 believed	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rang	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rang	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 teacher	nmod:poss
31	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rang	nsubj
32	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 believed	conj
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 rang	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kai in Manchester					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave in a quote	past	Kai in Manchester = kai	mark	home	monday	sir vocative	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at home=Location
3	believe	past	nobody	mark		thursday		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	ring	past	Kai's teacher				home property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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