April Fools' Day, sentence 11
Jade in Wales put a fake «wet paint» sign on her brother's chair, and he stood all through dinner while Mum laughed into her cawl, a Welsh stew; next day he put the sign on Jade's chair.
Who acts: Jade, Wales, Mum · What happens: put, stand, laugh · To what, where: fake paint sign, chair, dinner, cawl, sign
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 (Jade, Wales, 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 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Wales | case |
| 3 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jade | nmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sign | det |
| 6 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sign | amod |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 paint | punct |
| 8 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paint | amod |
| 9 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sign | compound |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 paint | punct |
| 11 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 chair | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 16 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stood | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stood | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 dinner | advmod |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 dinner | case |
| 23 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 laughed | mark |
| 25 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 laughed | nsubj |
| 26 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stood | advcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 cawl | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cawl | nmod:poss |
| 29 | cawl | cawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laughed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stew | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stew | det |
| 32 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stew | amod |
| 33 | stew | stew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cawl | appos |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 put | punct |
| 35 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 put | nsubj |
| 38 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sign | det |
| 40 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 chair | case |
| 42 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 chair | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 Jade | case |
| 44 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | 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 | put | past | Jade in Wales | a fake paint sign | Jade's brother's chair | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme on chair=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Wales | dinner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through dinner=Location | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | Mum | Jade's cawl | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into cawl=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | put | past | Wales | the sign | Jade's chair | day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme on chair=Destination |
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:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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