Covering for a friend, sentence 23
Nobody lied about anything; Alfie just took the trouble, and his friend bought him a doughnut.
Who acts: Nobody, Alfie, friend · What happens: lie, take, buy · To what, where: trouble, doughnut, Alfie
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 (Nobody, Alfie, friend), 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 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 lied | nsubj |
| 2 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 anything | case |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 lied | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 Alfie | punct |
| 6 | Alfie | Alfie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trouble | det |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bought | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bought | nsubj |
| 15 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bought | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 doughnut | det |
| 18 | doughnut | doughnut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bought | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lied | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Nobody | about anything | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about anything=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Alfie | the trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buy | past | Alfie's friend | a doughnut | Alfie | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary doughnut=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:23.
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): R6-punct-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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