Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 1

Grandpa laughed: «Son, the pros last eight seconds.» Everyone laughed, Jake too, and after that Grandpa asked «How many seconds?» every time Jake told a story.

Who acts: Grandpa, Everyone, Jake · What happens: laugh, last, ask, tell · To what, where: story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Boasting cousins and made-up holidays» 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 (Grandpa, Everyone, Jake), 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	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
5	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 last	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pros	det
8	pros	pro	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 last	conj
9	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	parataxis
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 seconds	nummod
11	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 last	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 last	punct
14	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
17	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Everyone	appos
18	too	too	ADV	_	17 Jake	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 Grandpa	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 Grandpa	det
23	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	conj
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 seconds	punct
26	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 many	advmod
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 seconds	amod
28	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 asked	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	obl:unmarked
33	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 told	nsubj
34	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 time	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 story	det
36	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 told	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Grandpa				tree rules
2	last in a quote	present			second	Son vocative	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	past	Everyone				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	that Grandpa		second; time		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	Jake	a story			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:1.

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 ×3, R6-punct-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.

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