Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 20
Professional bull riders need to stay on for eight seconds; nobody rides a bucking bull for ten minutes.
Who acts: Professional bull riders, nobody · What happens: need, stay on, ride · To what, where: bucking bull
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 (Professional bull riders, nobody), 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 | Professional | professional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 riders | amod |
| 2 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 riders | compound |
| 3 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 need | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stay | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 seconds | case |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 seconds | nummod |
| 10 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stay | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 rides | nsubj |
| 13 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bull | det |
| 15 | bucking | bucking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bull | compound |
| 16 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rides | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 minutes | case |
| 18 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 minutes | nummod |
| 19 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rides | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Professional bull riders | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stay on not said to happen | to-infinitive | Professional bull riders not said here | second | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | present | nobody | a bucking bull | minute | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=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:20.
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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