«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 14
Leo broke his little sister's Lego castle and told six-year-old Eve she'd done it in her sleep; she believed him for a whole day.
Who acts: Leo, Eve · What happens: break, tell, do, believe, sleep · To what, where: Lego castle, old Eve, castle, sleep, Leo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson ««It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other» 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 (Leo, Eve), 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 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 sister | case |
| 7 | Lego | Lego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | compound |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 11 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 year | nummod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 six | punct |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 old | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 year | punct |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Eve | amod |
| 16 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sleep | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 believed | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 believed | nsubj |
| 26 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 believed | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 day | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 day | amod |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 believed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Leo | Leo's little sister's Lego castle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Leo not said here | old Eve | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent eve=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Eve | castle | Eve's sleep | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | believe | past | Eve | Leo | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | sleep | Eve | nom sleep «state 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:432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other.lesson:14.
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 ×2, 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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