The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 22
Kai went back alone and knocked: «G'day, that was me, sorry.» Mr Wilson, about to call the police, shook his hand, and Kai washed his car three times to help pay.
Who acts: Kai, that, police, Mr Wilson · What happens: go back, knock, be, call, shook, wash · To what, where: Isla, hand, car · 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 (Kai, that, police, Mr Wilson), 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 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knocked | cc |
| 6 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 « | punct |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 knocked | punct |
| 9 | G'day | G'day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 me | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 « | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 me | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 me | cop |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knocked | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 2 went | discourse |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 Wilson | punct |
| 18 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Wilson | compound |
| 19 | Wilson | Wilson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 shook | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 call | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 call | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 call | mark |
| 23 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Wilson | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 police | det |
| 25 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 call | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shook | punct |
| 27 | shook | shook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shook | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 washed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 washed | cc |
| 32 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 washed | nsubj |
| 33 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 shook | conj |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 car | nmod:poss |
| 35 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 washed | obj |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 times | nummod |
| 37 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 washed | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 help | mark |
| 39 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 washed | advcl |
| 40 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 help | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Kai | alone property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | Kai not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | that | Isla | G'day vocative | tree rules | |||
| 4 | call | to-infinitive | the police | about property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | shook | past | Mr Wilson | Kai's hand | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wash | past | Kai | Kai's car | time | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient | |||
| 7 | help | to-infinitive | Kai not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | pay | infinitive | Kai not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:22.
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, R5-strong ×1, 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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