Covering for a friend, sentence 22
Alfie lent his friend his own PE kit and sat out PE himself.
Who acts: Alfie · What happens: lend, sit out · To what, where: own PE kit, friend, PE
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 (Alfie), 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 | Alfie | Alfie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lent | nsubj |
| 2 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lent | iobj |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kit | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kit | amod |
| 7 | PE | pe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kit | compound |
| 8 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lent | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sat | cc |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lent | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | PE | pe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | obj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 10 sat | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend | past | Alfie | Alfie's own PE kit | Alfie's friend | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient kit=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit out | past | Alfie not said here | PE | Alfie obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pe=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:22.
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 ×2. 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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