«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 15

Zara in Cape Town said load-shedding had stopped her, but her teacher checked the power-cut schedule: that evening the cut was in another part of town, not in her area.

Who acts: Zara, load shedding, teacher, cut · What happens: say, stop, check, be · To what, where: Zara, cut schedule, part · 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 (Zara, load shedding, teacher, cut), 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	Zara	Zara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 Town	case
3	Cape	Cape	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Town	compound
4	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Zara	nmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shedding	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 load	punct
8	shedding	shedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	aux
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stopped	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 checked	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 checked	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teacher	nmod:poss
15	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 checked	nsubj
16	checked	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 schedule	det
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cut	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 power	punct
20	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 schedule	compound
21	schedule	schedule	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 checked	obj
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 part	punct
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 evening	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	obl:unmarked
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cut	det
26	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 part	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 part	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 part	det
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 checked	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 town	case
32	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 area	punct
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 area	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 area	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 area	nmod:poss
37	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 town	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 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	Zara in Cape Town					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	past · perfect	load shedding	Zara				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality
3	check	past	Zara's teacher	the cut schedule				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schedule=Theme
4	is	past	the cut		another part	evening	of town and Zara's area	tree rules

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:15.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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