Funny pranks, sentence 7
Jayden in Atlanta wrapped his brother's whole desk in tin foil, pencil by pencil, which took two hours; his brother walked in and said «Bro, that's actually bussin'» — young slang for «amazing».
Who acts: Jayden, brother, that · What happens: wrap, take, walk in, say, be · To what, where: whole desk, tin foil, young slang, Bro, bussin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jayden, brother, that), 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 | Jayden | Jayden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Atlanta | case |
| 3 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jayden | nmod |
| 4 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 desk | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 desk | amod |
| 9 | desk | desk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 foil | case |
| 11 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 foil | compound |
| 12 | foil | foil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrapped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pencil | punct |
| 14 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 foil | appos |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 pencil | case |
| 16 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pencil | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrapped | parataxis |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hours | nummod |
| 21 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADV | _ | 25 walked | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 walked | conj |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 30 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bussin | punct |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 bussin | nsubj |
| 33 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 bussin | cop |
| 34 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 35 bussin | advmod |
| 35 | bussin | bussin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | parataxis |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 bussin | punct |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 35 bussin | punct |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 slang | punct |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 slang | amod |
| 40 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 amazing | case |
| 42 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 43 amazing | punct |
| 43 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 slang | nmod |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 43 amazing | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | past | Jayden in Atlanta | Jayden's brother's whole desk | tin foil | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent desk=Theme in foil=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past | young slang for amazing | hour | vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | walk in | past | Jayden's brother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Jayden's brother not said here | Bro | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | that | bussin | actually property | tree rules |
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:7.
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 ×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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