The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 1
Scared of what Mum would say, he signed it himself with her name and handed it in.
Who acts: Mum, Jack · What happens: say, sign, hand in, name · To what, where: note · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The forged signature and how it always ends» 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, Jack), 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 | Scared | scare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 signed | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 Scared | obl |
| 4 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 say | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | aux |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 signed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 signed | nsubj |
| 9 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 signed | obj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 signed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 name | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 signed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 handed | cc |
| 16 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 signed | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 handed | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 handed | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sign | past | Jack | note | with Mum's name; Jack obl:unmarked | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with name=Theme | |||
| 3 | hand in | past | Jack not said here | note | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | Mum | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:429-the-forged-signature-and-how-it-always-ends.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×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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