Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 12
Ivy kept saying she'd «tell Mum» things her big brother hadn't done unless he gave her his sweets, and mostly he gave in.
Who acts: Ivy, big brother, brother · What happens: keep, say, tell, mum, not do, give · To what, where: things, sweets, Ivy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ivy, big brother, 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 | Ivy | Ivy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Mum | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 Mum | aux |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 8 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 things | punct |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | obj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 done | advmod |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 17 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 19 gave | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sweets | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 gave | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gave | cc |
| 25 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 27 gave | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 gave | nsubj |
| 27 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 gave | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Ivy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Ivy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | things | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | mum in a quote | would | Ivy | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not do | past · perfect | Mum's big brother | things not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | give a condition, not said to happen | past | brother | brother's sweets | Ivy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient sweet=Theme | |||
| 7 | give in | past | brother | mostly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:12.
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, R6-punct-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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