Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 18

Aiden's cousin said he had a girlfriend on holiday; his aunt said, «He's nine, Aiden.

Who acts: cousin, aunt · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: girlfriend, holiday, nine · 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 (cousin, aunt), 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	Aiden	Aiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Aiden	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 girlfriend	det
8	girlfriend	girlfriend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 holiday	case
10	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 aunt	nmod:poss
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nine	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 nine	punct
17	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 nine	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 nine	cop
19	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Aiden	punct
21	Aiden	Aiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 nine	vocative
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Aiden's cousin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Cousin	a girlfriend	holiday		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girlfriend=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	Cousin's aunt				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	Cousin	nine		Aiden vocative	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:18.

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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