Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 13

Sophie told a made-up ghost story at a sleepover as if it were true, and at three in the morning one girl was so scared she rang her mum to go home.

Who acts: Sophie, sleepover, one girl, girl · What happens: tell, make up, be, ring, go · To what, where: made ghost story, sleepover, mum · 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 (Sophie, sleepover, one girl, girl), 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	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 story	det
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 story	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 sleepover	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sleepover	det
11	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 true	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 true	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 true	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 three	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 three	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 three	case
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 true	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 morning	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 morning	det
23	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 three	nmod
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 girl	nummod
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 scared	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scared	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 scared	advmod
28	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	conj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rang	nsubj
30	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scared	ccomp
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mum	nmod:poss
32	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rang	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 rang	advcl
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Sophie	a made ghost story	a sleepover		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	make up	participle					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	sleepover			true property	tree rules
4	is	past	one girl			scared property	tree rules
5	ring	past	girl	girl's mum			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme
6	go	to-infinitive	girl not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:13.

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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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