Boasting cousins and made-up holidays, sentence 9
His friend's dad, a pilot, said kindly: «Kids can visit the cockpit sometimes, mate, but nobody flies it.» Isaac said «Okay, I sat in the seat when it was parked» — still cool, and he was glad he'd said it.
Who acts: dad, Kids, nobody, Isaac · What happens: say, visit, fly, sit, park, be · To what, where: cockpit, seat · 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 (dad, Kids, nobody, Isaac), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dad | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 friend | case |
| 4 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pilot | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pilot | det |
| 7 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dad | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dad | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 visit | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 visit | punct |
| 13 | Kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 visit | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 visit | aux |
| 15 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cockpit | det |
| 17 | cockpit | cockpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 visit | obj |
| 18 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 visit | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mate | punct |
| 20 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 visit | vocative |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flies | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 flies | cc |
| 23 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 flies | nsubj |
| 24 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 visit | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 flies | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 visit | punct |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 visit | punct |
| 28 | Isaac | Isaac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 30 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 sat | punct |
| 31 | Okay | okay | INTJ | _ | 34 sat | discourse |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Okay | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 sat | nsubj |
| 34 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | ccomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 seat | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 seat | det |
| 37 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sat | obl |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 parked | advmod |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 parked | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 parked | aux:pass |
| 41 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 sat | advcl |
| 42 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 41 parked | punct |
| 43 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 cool | punct |
| 44 | still | still | ADV | _ | 45 cool | advmod |
| 45 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 parked | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 glad | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 glad | cc |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 glad | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 glad | cop |
| 50 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 parked | parataxis |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 said | nsubj |
| 52 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 said | aux |
| 53 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 glad | ccomp |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 said | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | story's friend's dad | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | visit in a quote | can | Kids | the cockpit | mate vocative; sometimes property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockpit=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | fly in a quote | present | nobody | cockpit | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Isaac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | sit in a quote | past | Isaac | the seat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location | ||||
| 6 | park in a quote | past · passive | cockpit | cool obl | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Isaac | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | Isaac | cockpit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:9.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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