«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 19
A missing homework is a small problem; a lie in front of the class turns it into a big one.
Who acts: missing homework, lie · What happens: be, turn · To what, where: small problem, homework
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 (missing homework, lie), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 homework | det |
| 2 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 homework | amod |
| 3 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 problem | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 problem | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 problem | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 problem | amod |
| 7 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 turns | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lie | det |
| 10 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lie | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 class | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 class | det |
| 15 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 16 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 problem | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turns | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turns | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 problem | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a missing homework | a small problem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | a lie in front of the class | homework | into a big one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into one=Trajectory |
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:19.
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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