The friend with a PS6, sentence 8
Zara in Johannesburg met a famous footballer at the airport and showed a blurry photo of a tall man's back.
Who acts: Zara · What happens: meet, show · To what, where: famous footballer, airport, blurry photo
This is a sentence of the lesson «The friend with a PS6» 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 (Zara), 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 | Zara | Zara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Johannesburg | case |
| 3 | Johannesburg | Johannesburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Zara | nmod |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 footballer | det |
| 6 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 footballer | amod |
| 7 | footballer | footballer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 airport | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 airport | det |
| 10 | airport | airport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 showed | cc |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 photo | det |
| 14 | blurry | blurry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 photo | amod |
| 15 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 man | case |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 photo | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Zara in Johannesburg | a famous footballer | the airport | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footballer=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | show | past | Zara in Johannesburg not said here | a blurry photo of a tall man's back | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=Recipient |
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:434-the-friend-with-a-ps6.lesson:8.
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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