Covering for a friend, sentence 19

Kiri in Rotorua said nothing when her mum asked about the storm; she and her friend had gone to the creek, which flooded.

Who acts: Kiri, mum, creek · What happens: say, ask, go, flood · To what, where: nothing, creek · 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 (Kiri, mum, creek), 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	Kiri	Kiri	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Rotorua	case
3	Rotorua	Rotorua	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Kiri	nmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asked	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 storm	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 gone	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gone	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 friend	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 she	conj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gone	aux
19	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 creek	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 creek	det
22	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gone	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flooded	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 flooded	nsubj
25	flooded	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 creek	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kiri in Rotorua	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	Kiri's mum			about the storm	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about storm=Topic
3	go	past · perfect	Kiri		the creek		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to creek=Initial_Location
4	flood	past	the creek				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:19.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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