When the story falls apart, sentence 10

Ethan in Dallas invented a big kid who stole his lunch money — he'd spent it on Pokémon cards — and his parents were scared for his safety for nothing.

Who acts: Ethan, big kid, parents · What happens: invent, steal, spend, be · To what, where: big kid, lunch money, money, Pokémon cards

This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (Ethan, big kid, parents), 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	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 invented	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Dallas	case
3	Dallas	Dallas	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ethan	nmod
4	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kid	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kid	amod
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invented	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stole	nsubj
9	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kid	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 money	nmod:poss
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 money	compound
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stole	obj
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 spent	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spent	nsubj
15	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spent	aux
16	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 invented	ccomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 spent	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 cards	case
19	Pokémon	Pokémon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cards	compound
20	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spent	obl
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 cards	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 scared	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 parents	nmod:poss
24	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 scared	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 scared	cop
26	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spent	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 safety	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 safety	nmod:poss
29	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 scared	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 nothing	case
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 scared	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 invented	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	invent	past	Ethan in Dallas	a big kid		tree rules
2	steal	past	a big kid	Ethan's lunch money		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme
3	spend	past · perfect	Ethan	money	on Pokémon cards goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Asset on card=Goal
4	is	past	Ethan's parents		for Ethan's safety; for nothing; scared property	tree rules

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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:10.

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. 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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