April Fools' Day, sentence 12
Ella's grandpa in Texas swears every year he's seen a jackalope — a made-up rabbit with antlers — and shows a stuffed toy as «proof».
Who acts: grandpa · What happens: swear, see, make up, show, stuff · To what, where: jackalope, stuffed toy
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 (grandpa), 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 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ella | case |
| 3 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swears | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Texas | case |
| 5 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | nmod |
| 6 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swears | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 swears | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 jackalope | det |
| 13 | jackalope | jackalope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 rabbit | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rabbit | det |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rabbit | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 made | compound:prt |
| 19 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jackalope | appos |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 antlers | case |
| 21 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rabbit | nmod |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 shows | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shows | cc |
| 24 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swears | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 toy | det |
| 26 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 toy | amod |
| 27 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shows | obj |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 proof | case |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 proof | punct |
| 30 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shows | obl |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 proof | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | Ella's grandpa in Texas | year | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present · perfect | grandpa | a jackalope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jackalope=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | show | present | Ella's grandpa in Texas not said here | a stuffed toy | as proof | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient | |||
| 5 | stuff | participle | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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