Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 35
When someone says «Mum said», you can always check by asking Mum.
Who acts: someone, Mum, you · What happens: say, check, ask · 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 (someone, Mum, you), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 says | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 check | advcl |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 check | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 check | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 check | aux |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 check | advmod |
| 12 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 asking | mark |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 check | advcl |
| 15 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 check | 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 | present | someone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | check | can | you | always property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Mum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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:35.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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