The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 13
The lie was a whole trip to the shop.» Finn dropped Dad's phone in the bath, dried it with a hair dryer and blamed «the update»; the repair shop said «water damage», and saying «it got wet» at once might have saved it.
Who acts: lie, Finn, repair shop, shop · What happens: be, drop, dry, blame, say, get · To what, where: whole trip, phone, bath, update, water damage, shop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The broken window and other hidden accidents» 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 (lie, Finn, repair shop, shop), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trip | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trip | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trip | amod |
| 6 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 shop | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shop | det |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trip | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trip | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 trip | punct |
| 12 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | nsubj |
| 13 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 phone | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Dad | case |
| 16 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bath | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bath | det |
| 19 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dropped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dried | punct |
| 21 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dropped | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dried | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 dryer | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dryer | det |
| 25 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dryer | compound |
| 26 | dryer | dryer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dried | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blamed | cc |
| 28 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dropped | conj |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 update | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 update | det |
| 31 | update | update | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blamed | obj |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 update | punct |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 shop | det |
| 35 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shop | compound |
| 36 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 said | nsubj |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dropped | parataxis |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 40 damage | punct |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 damage | compound |
| 40 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 said | obj |
| 41 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 damage | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 saying | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 saying | cc |
| 44 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 said | conj |
| 45 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 47 got | punct |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 got | nsubj |
| 47 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 saying | ccomp |
| 48 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 got | xcomp |
| 49 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 47 got | punct |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 once | case |
| 51 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 54 saved | obl |
| 52 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 saved | aux |
| 53 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 saved | aux |
| 54 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 47 got | conj |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 saved | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trip | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the lie | a whole trip | to the shop | tree rules | |||
| 2 | drop in a quote | past | Finn | Dad's phone | the bath | tree rules | |||
| 3 | dry in a quote | past | Finn not said here | phone | with a hair dryer | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with dryer=Instrument | |||
| 4 | blame in a quote | past | Finn not said here | the update | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent update=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the repair shop | water damage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent damage=Topic | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | the repair shop not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | get | past | shop | wet property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | save in a quote | might · perfect | shop not said here | shop | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset |
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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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