The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 18

Mia hid Gran's broken china cat; Gran wasn't sad about the cat, only that Mia hadn't told her, and gave her a cwtch, the Welsh word for a cuddle.

Who acts: Mia, Gran · What happens: hide, not be, not tell, give · To what, where: broken china cat, cat, cwtch · 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 (Mia, Gran), 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Gran	case
5	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cat	amod
6	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	compound
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sad	punct
9	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sad	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sad	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sad	advmod
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hid	parataxis
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 cat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sad	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	22 told	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
19	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 told	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 told	advmod
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 hid	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gave	cc
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hid	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	iobj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 cwtch	det
29	cwtch	cwtch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 word	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 word	det
32	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 word	amod
33	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cwtch	appos
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 cuddle	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cuddle	det
36	cuddle	cuddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 word	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hide	past	Mia	Gran's broken china cat			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
2	not is	past	Gran			about the cat; sad property	tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect	Mia		cat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	give	past	Mia not said here	a cwtch	cat		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient cwtch=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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.lesson:18.

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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