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Covering for a friend, sentence 10

Ella agreed to say Niamh was at her house; Niamh was really in town with older kids, and when the mums talked, both girls were in trouble.

Who acts: Ella, Niamh, mums, girls · What happens: agree, say, be, talk · To what, where: house, town, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (Ella, Niamh, mums, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjmarkxcompnsubjcopcasenmod:possccomppunctnsubjcopadvmodcaseconjcaseamodnmodpunctccmarkdetnsubjadvclpunctdetnsubjcopcaseconjpunctrootEllaPROPNagreedVERBtoPARTsayVERBNiamhPROPNwasAUXatADPherPRONhouseNOUN;PUNCTNiamhPROPNwasAUXreallyADVinADPtownNOUNwithADPolderADJkidsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhenSCONJtheDETmumsNOUNtalkedVERB,PUNCTbothDETgirlsNOUNwereAUXinADPtroubleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EllaEllaPROPNNumber=Sing2 agreednsubj
2agreedagreeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoPART_4 saymark
4saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf2 agreedxcomp
5NiamhNiamhPROPNNumber=Sing9 housensubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 housecop
7atatADP_9 housecase
8herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 housenmod:poss
9househouseNOUNNumber=Sing4 sayccomp
10;;PUNCT_15 townpunct
11NiamhNiamhPROPNNumber=Sing15 townnsubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 towncop
13reallyreallyADV_15 townadvmod
14ininADP_15 towncase
15towntownNOUNNumber=Sing9 houseconj
16withwithADP_18 kidscase
17olderoldADJDegree=Cmp18 kidsamod
18kidskidNOUNNumber=Plur15 townnmod
19,,PUNCT_30 troublepunct
20andandCCONJ_30 troublecc
21whenwhenSCONJ_24 talkedmark
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 mumsdet
23mumsmumNOUNNumber=Plur24 talkednsubj
24talkedtalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 troubleadvcl
25,,PUNCT_30 troublepunct
26bothbothDETPronType=Tot27 girlsdet
27girlsgirlNOUNNumber=Plur30 troublensubj
28werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 troublecop
29ininADP_30 troublecase
30troubletroubleNOUNNumber=Sing2 agreedconj
31..PUNCT_2 agreedpunct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1agree speech: agreepastEllavn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2say speech: assert not said to happento-infinitiveElla not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3ispastNiamhNiamh's house and towntree rules
4ispastNiamhtownwith older kidstree rules
5talkpastthe mumsvn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6ispastboth girlstroubletree 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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:10.

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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