Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 6

She refused all fruit for a week and cried at night; Mum found out why and Sam had to explain the truth and felt mean.

Who acts: Amelia, Mum, Sam · What happens: refuse, cry, find out, have, explain, feel · To what, where: fruit, truth

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 (Amelia, Mum, Sam), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fruit	det
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refused	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 week	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 refused	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cried	cc
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cried	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 found	compound:prt
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 had	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Sam	cc
18	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 explain	mark
21	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 had	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 truth	det
23	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 explain	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 felt	cc
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 explain	conj
26	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 felt	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 refused	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	Amelia	all fruit	week		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Amelia not said here		night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find out	past	Mum				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	Sam				tree rules
5	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	Sam not said here	the truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic
6	feel	past	Sam not said here			mean property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:6.

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): R7-rel-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.

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