«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 16

Theo in Leeds said he had been «proper poorly» (really ill) with a headache, but a classmate had seen him playing football in the ginnel (a narrow alley between houses) that same evening.

Who acts: Theo, classmate · What happens: say, have, be, see, play · To what, where: Theo, football, ginnel · 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 (Theo, classmate), 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	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Leeds	case
3	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Theo	nmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 ill	cop
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
9	proper	properly	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
10	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 ill	advmod
14	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	xcomp
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	14 ill	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 headache	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 headache	det
18	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ill	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seen	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 classmate	det
22	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seen	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 had	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	obj
26	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 seen	xcomp
27	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 playing	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 ginnel	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ginnel	det
30	ginnel	ginnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 playing	obl
31	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 alley	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 alley	det
33	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 alley	amod
34	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ginnel	appos
35	between	between	ADP	_	36 houses	case
36	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 alley	nmod
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 alley	punct
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 evening	det
39	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 evening	amod
40	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 playing	obl:unmarked
41	.	.	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	Theo in Leeds					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Theo					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle	Theo not said here				with a headache; ill, poorly, properly property	tree rules
4	see	past · perfect	a classmate	Theo				tree rules
5	play	gerund	Theo not said here	football	the ginnel	evening		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=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:16.

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): no change. 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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