The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 3

Mum paid for the glass from his birthday money, and Owen had to say sorry to Mr Patel face to face, which felt worse than the glass.

Who acts: Mum, Owen, Patel face · What happens: pay, have, say, feel · To what, where: birthday money, sorry, Patel face · 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 (Mum, Owen, Patel face), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 glass	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glass	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 money	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 money	nmod:poss
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 face	case
18	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Patel	compound
19	Patel	Patel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 face	compound
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 face	case
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 face	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 felt	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 felt	nsubj
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 face	acl:relcl
26	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 felt	xcomp
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 glass	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 glass	det
29	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 worse	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Mum			football's birthday money	for the glass	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for glass=Theme
2	have	past	Owen					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Owen not said here	sorry	Patel face to face			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic to face=Recipient
4	feel	past	Patel face to face				bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:428-the-broken-window-and-other-hidden-accidents.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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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