Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 19
Charlie, nine, said his big sister was «in the shower» when she had sneaked out to a friend's; Dad heard no water and found her room empty, both got in trouble, and she didn't even say thanks.
Who acts: Charlie, big sister, sister, Dad, both · What happens: say, be, sneak out, hear, find, get · To what, where: shower, water, room, trouble, thanks · 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 (Charlie, big sister, sister, Dad), 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 | Charlie | Charlie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 nine | punct |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Charlie | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Charlie | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sister | amod |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shower | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shower | cop |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 shower | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 shower | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shower | det |
| 13 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 shower | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 sneaked | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sneaked | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sneaked | aux |
| 18 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 shower | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 sneaked | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 friend | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 friend | det |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sneaked | obl |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 friend | case |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 25 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 room | nmod:poss |
| 32 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 33 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 found | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 got | punct |
| 35 | both | both | PRON | _ | 36 got | nsubj |
| 36 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 trouble | case |
| 38 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 got | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 say | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 say | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 say | nsubj |
| 42 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 say | aux |
| 43 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 say | advmod |
| 44 | even | even | ADV | _ | 45 say | advmod |
| 45 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 got | conj |
| 46 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 say | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Charlie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | Charlie's big sister | the shower | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sneak out | past · perfect | sister | to a friend result; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to friend=Result | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | Dad | no water | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Dad not said here | sister's room | empty property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic | |||
| 6 | get | past | both | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | sister | thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
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:19.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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