Covering for a friend, sentence 20

Weeks later Mum found muddy jandals (flip-flops) with creek weed on them, and told her the creek had swept a dog away that day.

Who acts: Mum, creek · What happens: find, tell, sweep away · To what, where: muddy jandals, Kiri, dog · 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 (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	Weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 later	obl:unmarked
2	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 found	advmod
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jandals	amod
6	jandals	jandal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 flops	punct
8	flip	flip	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flops	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 flip	punct
10	flops	flop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 jandals	appos
11	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 flops	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 weed	case
13	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weed	compound
14	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jandals	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 weed	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 creek	det
22	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swept	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 swept	aux
24	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 told	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dog	det
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swept	obj
27	away	away	ADV	_	24 swept	advmod
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 swept	obl:unmarked
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Mum	muddy jandals			with creek weed on flops; late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jandal=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past	Mum not said here		Kiri			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sweep away	past · perfect	the creek	a dog		day	away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dog=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:436-covering-for-a-friend.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): R5-strong ×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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