Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 10
Cousin Molly in Newcastle bragged about a pony, a laptop AND a trampoline; her mam rolled her eyes: «You got a jigsaw and socks, pet.» Molly sulked, then played the jigsaw with everyone, and it was canny — Geordie for nice.
Who acts: Molly, mam, You · What happens: brag, roll, get, sulk, play, be · To what, where: eyes, jigsaw · 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 (Molly, mam, 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 | Cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Molly | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bragged | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Newcastle | case |
| 4 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Molly | nmod |
| 5 | bragged | brag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 pony | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pony | det |
| 8 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bragged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laptop | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 laptop | det |
| 11 | laptop | laptop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pony | conj |
| 12 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trampoline | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trampoline | det |
| 14 | trampoline | trampoline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pony | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 rolled | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mam | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mam | mam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rolled | nsubj |
| 18 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bragged | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rolled | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 23 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 rolled | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 jigsaw | det |
| 26 | jigsaw | jigsaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 socks | cc |
| 28 | socks | sock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 jigsaw | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pet | punct |
| 30 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | vocative |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 33 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sulked | nsubj |
| 34 | sulked | sulk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bragged | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 played | punct |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 played | advmod |
| 37 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sulked | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 jigsaw | det |
| 39 | jigsaw | jigsaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 played | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 everyone | case |
| 41 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 37 played | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 canny | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 canny | cc |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 canny | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 canny | cop |
| 46 | canny | canny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bragged | conj |
| 47 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 Geordie | punct |
| 48 | Geordie | geordie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 canny | obl |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 nice | case |
| 50 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 Geordie | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bragged | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brag speech: other | past | Molly Cousin in Newcastle | about a pony and a laptop and a trampoline | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about pony=Topic | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | Molly's mam | Molly's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | You | a jigsaw and socks | pet vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jigsaw=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sulk | past | Molly | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | play | past | Molly not said here | the jigsaw | then | with everyone | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent jigsaw=Theme with everyone=Co-Agent | ||
| 6 | is | past | mam | Geordie for nice obl; canny property | tree rules |
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:10.
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 ×2. 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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