«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 3

Priya in Leicester said the printer broke, and her teacher said «Lovely, email it tonight then» — there was nothing to email.

Who acts: Priya, printer, teacher · What happens: say, break, email · To what, where: teacher · 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 (Priya, printer, 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	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Leicester	case
3	Leicester	Leicester	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Priya	nmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 printer	det
6	printer	printer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broke	nsubj
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 teacher	nmod:poss
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 Lovely	punct
14	Lovely	Lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 email	discourse
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 email	punct
16	email	email	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 email	obj
18	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 email	obl:unmarked
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 email	advmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 email	punct
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 was	nsubj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 email	mark
26	email	email	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 nothing	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Priya in Leicester			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	past	the printer			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Priya's teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	email in a quote	infinitive		teacher	then; tonight	tree rules
5	email	to-infinitive	Priya in Leicester not said here			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:3.

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. 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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