Funny pranks, sentence 17
Kirsty in Aberdeen hid her dad's car keys so he'd «look for ages» — he was late and nearly missed a job interview.
Who acts: Kirsty, dad · What happens: hide, look, be, miss · To what, where: car keys, job interview
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 (Kirsty, dad), 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 | Kirsty | Kirsty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Aberdeen | case |
| 3 | Aberdeen | Aberdeen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kirsty | nmod |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dad | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keys | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 dad | case |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keys | compound |
| 9 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 look | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hid | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ages | case |
| 16 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 look | obl |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 late | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 late | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 late | cop |
| 21 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hid | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 missed | cc |
| 23 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 24 missed | advmod |
| 24 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 late | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 interview | det |
| 26 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 interview | compound |
| 27 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 missed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Kirsty in Aberdeen | Kirsty's dad's car keys | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | would | dad | for ages | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for age=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | dad | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | miss | past | dad not said here | a job interview | nearly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer interview=Stimulus |
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:17.
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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