Covering for a friend, sentence 9
Josh said Liam's phone in class was his; the teacher took Josh's phone for the day, and Liam didn't even say thanks.
Who acts: Josh, phone, teacher, Liam · What happens: say, be, take, not say · To what, where: Liam, phone, thanks · 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 (Josh, phone, teacher, Liam), 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 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 phone | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Liam | case |
| 5 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 his | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 class | case |
| 7 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 phone | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 his | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teacher | det |
| 12 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 his | conj |
| 14 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 phone | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Josh | case |
| 16 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 say | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 say | cc |
| 22 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 say | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 say | aux |
| 24 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 say | advmod |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 say | advmod |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | parataxis |
| 27 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 say | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Josh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Liam's phone in class | Liam | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the teacher | Josh's phone | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme | |||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | past · do-support | Liam | thanks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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