Funny pranks, sentence 10
Mia swapped salt for sugar in her brother's tea; he spat it across the table, laughed, and Mum made Mia make a fresh cup and clean up — fair enough.
Who acts: Mia, prank, Mum · What happens: swap, spat, laugh, make, clean up · To what, where: salt, tea, table, Mia, fresh cup
This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» 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 (Mia, prank, Mum), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 swapped | nsubj |
| 2 | swapped | swap | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swapped | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sugar | case |
| 5 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swapped | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tea | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tea | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 10 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swapped | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 spat | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spat | nsubj |
| 13 | spat | spat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swapped | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spat | obj |
| 15 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spat | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughed | punct |
| 19 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spat | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 22 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 laughed | conj |
| 24 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 made | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cup | det |
| 27 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cup | amod |
| 28 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 clean | cc |
| 30 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 make | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 clean | compound:prt |
| 32 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 fair | punct |
| 33 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 laughed | conj |
| 34 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 fair | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swapped | 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 | swap | past | Mia | salt | Mia's brother's tea | for sugar | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent salt=Theme for sugar=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | spat | past | prank | salt | the table | tree rules | |||
| 3 | laugh | past | prank not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Mum | Mia | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | Mia not said here | a fresh cup | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cup=Product | ||||
| 6 | clean up | infinitive | Mia not said here | 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:438-funny-pranks.lesson:10.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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