When the story falls apart, sentence 5

Tiny clues help too: Grace said the crisp packet under her bed was «from ages ago», but the best-before date was next year and Mum had bought those crisps on Tuesday.

Who acts: Tiny clues, Grace, crisp packet, best date, Mum · What happens: help, say, be, buy · To what, where: ages, crisps · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tiny clues, Grace, crisp packet, best date), 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	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clues	amod
2	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 help	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 help	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 packet	det
9	crisp	crisp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 packet	amod
10	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ages	nsubj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 bed	nmod:poss
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 packet	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ages	cop
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 ages	punct
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 ages	case
17	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	ccomp
18	ago	ago	ADV	_	19 »	advmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 ages	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bought	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 bought	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 date	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 date	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 best	punct
25	before	before	ADP	_	26 date	case
26	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bought	advcl
28	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 year	amod
29	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	obl:unmarked
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Mum	cc
31	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 bought	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bought	aux
33	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 help	conj
34	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 crisps	det
35	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bought	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 Tuesday	case
37	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 bought	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 help	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	help	present	Tiny clues			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Grace			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	the crisp packet under Grace's bed		from ages	tree rules
4	be	past	the best date		year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	buy	past · perfect	Mum	that crisps	tuesday	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Theme

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:5.

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 ×2, 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.

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