The forged signature and how it always ends, sentence 16

Mum was cross about the note, but sad he hadn't told her he was scared — and the teacher let him start in the shallow end.

Who acts: Mum, teacher, Ollie · What happens: be, not tell, let, start · To what, where: Mum, Ollie, shallow end · 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, teacher, Ollie), 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	3 cross	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 note	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 note	det
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cross	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sad	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 sad	cc
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cross	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sad	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 scared	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scared	cop
17	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	ccomp
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 teacher	det
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	nsubj
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
27	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 end	amod
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 start	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cross	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mum				about the note; cross property	tree rules
2	be		Mum not said here					tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	past · perfect	teacher		Mum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is	past	teacher				scared property	tree rules
5	let	past	the teacher	Ollie				tree rules
6	start	infinitive	Ollie not said here			in the shallow end		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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:16.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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