Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 1
He believed it for a year and waved at it every night.
Who acts: moon · What happens: believe, wave · To what, where: it
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (moon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 believed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waved | cc |
| 8 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 believed | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waved | obl |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waved | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | moon | it | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wave | past | moon not said here | it | night | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Location |
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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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