The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 12
Emma's mum trusted her to tick her own reading log, and Emma ticked days she hadn't read; her reading level stayed still, she owned up, and breaking Mum's trust hurt more than any punishment.
Who acts: mum, Emma, reading level, level, breaking · What happens: trust, tick, not read, stay, own up, break · To what, where: Emma, own reading log, days, trust
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, Emma, reading level, level), 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 | Emma | Emma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Emma | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trusted | nsubj |
| 4 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trusted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tick | mark |
| 7 | tick | tick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trusted | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 log | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 log | amod |
| 10 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 log | compound |
| 11 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tick | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ticked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ticked | cc |
| 14 | Emma | Emma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ticked | nsubj |
| 15 | ticked | tick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 trusted | conj |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ticked | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 read | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 read | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 read | advmod |
| 20 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 days | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stayed | punct |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 level | nmod:poss |
| 23 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 level | compound |
| 24 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 25 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ticked | conj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 stayed | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 owned | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 owned | nsubj |
| 29 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 owned | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hurt | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hurt | cc |
| 33 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 hurt | csubj |
| 34 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 trust | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 Mum | case |
| 36 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 breaking | obj |
| 37 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | conj |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 hurt | advmod |
| 39 | than | than | ADP | _ | 41 punishment | case |
| 40 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 punishment | det |
| 41 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 more | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trusted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | past | Emma's mum | Emma | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tick | to-infinitive | Emma's mum not said here | Mum's own reading log | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location log=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tick | past | Emma | day | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | not read | past · perfect | Emma | days not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Topic | ||||
| 5 | stay | past | Mum's reading level | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | own up | past | level | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | break | gerund | Mum's trust | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient | |||||
| 8 | hurt | past | breaking | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | trust | Mum | nom trust «possession intransitive»: 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:12.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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