April Fools' Day, sentence 0
On the first of April, Dad in Dublin told the kids school was cancelled because of snow.
Who acts: Dad · What happens: tell, cancel · To what, where: first, kids school · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» 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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 told | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 April | case |
| 5 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 first | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
| 7 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Dublin | case |
| 9 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dad | nmod |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 school | det |
| 12 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 school | compound |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cancelled | aux:pass |
| 15 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 told | ccomp |
| 16 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 snow | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 because | fixed |
| 18 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cancelled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Dad in Dublin | the first of April | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cancel | past · passive | the kids school | because snow | 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:440-april-fools-day.lesson:0.
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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