Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 12

Mila in Auckland really did swim with dolphins, but nobody believed her: «You said you met a mermaid last year.» She had to show a photo from her mum's phone.

Who acts: Mila, nobody, You · What happens: swim, believe, say, meet, have, show · To what, where: Mila, mermaid, photo, phone · 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 (Mila, nobody, 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	Mila	Mila	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swim	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Auckland	case
3	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mila	nmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 swim	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	aux
6	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 dolphins	case
8	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swim	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 believed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 believed	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 believed	nsubj
12	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 believed	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 met	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 believed	ccomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 met	nsubj
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mermaid	det
21	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 met	obj
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 year	amod
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 met	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swim	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swim	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 show	mark
29	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 photo	det
31	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 show	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	36 phone	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mum	nmod:poss
34	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 phone	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 mum	case
36	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 show	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past · do-support	Mila in Auckland				with dolphins	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with dolphin=Theme
2	believe	past	nobody	Mila				tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	You					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	meet in a quote	past	you	a mermaid		year		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mermaid=Co-Agent
5	have	past	Mila					tree rules
6	show	to-infinitive	Mila not said here	a photo	Mila's mum's phone			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:435-boasting-cousins-and-made-up-holidays.lesson:12.

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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