The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 11
Sophie changed «needs improvement» on her report to «needs no improvement»; her dad, a teacher himself, laughed out loud, then stopped laughing.
Who acts: Sophie, dad · What happens: change, need, laugh out, stop, laugh, report · To what, where: report, improvement · 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 (Sophie, dad), 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 | Sophie | Sophie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 changed | ccomp |
| 5 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 report | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 report | nmod:poss |
| 9 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 needs | case |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 needs | punct |
| 12 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 changed | obl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 improvement | det |
| 14 | improvement | improvement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needs | obj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 needs | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dad | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laughed | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 teacher | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 teacher | det |
| 21 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dad | appos |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 teacher | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laughed | punct |
| 24 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 changed | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 laughed | advmod |
| 26 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 24 laughed | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stopped | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 stopped | advmod |
| 29 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 laughed | conj |
| 30 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 stopped | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Sophie | Sophie's report | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | Sophie not said here | improvement | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot improvement=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | no improvement | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot improvement=Theme | |||||
| 4 | laugh out | past | Sophie's dad | loud, out property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | stop | past | Sophie's dad not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | laugh | gerund | Sophie's dad not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | report | Sophie | nom report «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:11.
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 ×3. 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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