«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 20
«The dog ate my homework» is the oldest school excuse, so teachers hear it as a joke.
Who acts: dog, teachers · What happens: eat, be, hear · To what, where: homework, oldest school excuse · 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 (dog, teachers), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | nsubj |
| 4 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 excuse | csubj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 homework | nmod:poss |
| 6 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ate | obj |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 ate | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 excuse | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 excuse | det |
| 10 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 excuse | amod |
| 11 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 excuse | compound |
| 12 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 hear | advmod |
| 15 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 excuse | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 joke | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 joke | det |
| 20 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 excuse | 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 | eat in a quote | past | the dog | my homework | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the oldest school excuse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear | present | teachers | homework | as a joke | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:20.
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, R8-pos-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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