Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 15

Jacob's big sister told him the ice-cream van «only plays music when it's run out» — their own mum had told her that when she was little, to save money.

Who acts: big sister, Mum · What happens: tell, run out, be, save · To what, where: cream van, Jacob, van, own mum, sister, money · 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 (big sister, Mum), 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	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sister	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jacob	case
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sister	amod
4	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 van	det
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cream	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ice	punct
10	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 van	compound
11	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 music	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 plays	advmod
14	plays	play	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 music	compound
15	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 van	appos
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 run	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 run	nsubj:pass
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 run	aux
19	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	ccomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 run	compound:prt
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 run	punct
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mum	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mum	amod
25	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	aux
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 run	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	iobj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 little	mark
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 little	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 little	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 little	cop
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 told	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 save	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 save	mark
36	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 little	parataxis
37	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 save	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jacob's big sister	the cream van	Jacob		tree rules
2	run out in a quote	present · passive		van			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Threats's own mum	sister		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic
4	is	past	Mum			little property	tree rules
5	save	to-infinitive		money			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:15.

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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