«It was HIM!»: siblings blaming each other, sentence 8
Aisha drew on the wall and wrote «OMAR IS STINKY» next to it, to make it look like her brother's work — but Omar would never write that.
Who acts: Aisha, OMAR, wall, brother · What happens: draw, write, be, make, look, not write · To what, where: wall, that · 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 (Aisha, OMAR, wall, brother), 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 | Aisha | Aisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wrote | cc |
| 7 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 STINKY | punct |
| 9 | OMAR | OMAR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 STINKY | nsubj |
| 10 | IS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 STINKY | cop |
| 11 | STINKY | stinky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wrote | ccomp |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 STINKY | punct |
| 13 | next | next | ADV | _ | 15 it | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wrote | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wrote | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | xcomp |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 work | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 work | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 look | obl |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 write | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 write | cc |
| 28 | Omar | Omar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 write | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 write | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 write | advmod |
| 31 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 drew | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 write | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Aisha | the wall | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | write | past | Aisha not said here | wall | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | OMAR | stinky property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Aisha not said here | wall | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | wall not said here | like OMAR's brother's work | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not write | would | Omar | that | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 7 | work | OMAR's brother | nom work «act 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:8.
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. 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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