Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 2

When he found out, he was a bit sad — then told the same thing to his little cousin, and it became a family joke.

Who acts: moon, thing · What happens: find out, be, tell, become · To what, where: same thing, little cousin, family joke · 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 (moon, thing), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 found	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 found	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sad	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sad	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sad	obl:unmarked
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 told	parataxis
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 sad	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 cousin	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cousin	nmod:poss
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 cousin	amod
20	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 became	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 became	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 became	nsubj
24	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 joke	det
26	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 joke	compound
27	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 became	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find out	past	moon					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	moon				a bit obl:unmarked; sad property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past		the same thing	moon's little cousin	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to cousin=Recipient
4	become	past	thing	a family joke				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:2.

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 ×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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