The broken window and other hidden accidents, sentence 9
Walking away and lying is a choice.» He got a detention — for the lie, not the window.
Who acts: stone · What happens: walk away, lie, be, get · To what, where: choice, detention · 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 (stone), 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 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 choice | nsubj |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Walking | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lying | cc |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Walking | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 choice | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 choice | det |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 choice | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 choice | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 choice | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 detention | det |
| 13 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Walking | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 lie | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lie | det |
| 17 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 window | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 window | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 window | det |
| 21 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 choice | 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 | walk away | gerund | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | a choice | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past | stone | a detention | for the lie; the window obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent detention=Theme for lie=Source |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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