Covering for a friend, sentence 12
Grace in Toronto saw Ava take a chocolate bar without paying and told the shopkeeper «We didn't take anything, eh.» The shop had a camera and called both mums; Grace felt sick for days.
Who acts: Grace, Ava, We, shop, mums · What happens: see, take, pay, tell, not take, have · To what, where: chocolate bar, shopkeeper, anything, camera · 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 (Grace, Ava, We, shop), 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 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Toronto | case |
| 3 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Grace | nmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Ava | Ava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bar | det |
| 8 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bar | compound |
| 9 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 paying | mark |
| 11 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 take | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shopkeeper | det |
| 15 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 17 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 take | advmod |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | ccomp |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eh | punct |
| 23 | eh | eh | INTJ | Number=Sing | 20 take | discourse |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shop | det |
| 27 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 camera | det |
| 30 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 called | cc |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | conj |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 mums | det |
| 34 | mums | mum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 called | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 felt | punct |
| 36 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 felt | nsubj |
| 37 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 38 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 felt | xcomp |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 days | case |
| 40 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 felt | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Grace in Toronto | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | Ava | a chocolate bar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | gerund | Ava not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Grace in Toronto not said here | the shopkeeper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent shopkeeper=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not take in a quote | past · do-support | We | anything | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | the shop | a camera | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camera=Patient | ||||
| 7 | call | past | both mums | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | feel | past | Grace | day | sick property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:12.
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): R8-pos-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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