Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 5
Sam told his little sister that a swallowed watermelon seed grows a watermelon in your belly.
Who acts: Sam, swallowed watermelon seed · What happens: tell, swallow, grow · To what, where: little sister, watermelon, belly · 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 (Sam, swallowed watermelon seed), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sister | amod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 grows | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 seed | det |
| 8 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seed | amod |
| 9 | watermelon | watermelon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seed | compound |
| 10 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grows | nsubj |
| 11 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 watermelon | det |
| 13 | watermelon | watermelon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grows | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 belly | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 belly | nmod:poss |
| 16 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grows | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Sam | Sam's little sister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | grow | present | a swallowed watermelon seed | a watermelon | your belly | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location watermelon=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:5.
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): no change. 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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