April Fools' Day, sentence 15
Mia in Toronto told her mum she'd broken her arm; Mum panicked and grabbed the car keys, and when Mia shouted «April Fools!», Mum didn't laugh: «Don't joke about getting hurt.
Who acts: Mia, Mum · What happens: tell, broken, panic, grab, shout, not laugh · To what, where: mum, arm, car keys, April Fools, hurt · 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 (Mia, 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Toronto | case |
| 3 | Toronto | Toronto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mia | nmod |
| 4 | told | tell | 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 mum | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 broken | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 broken | aux |
| 9 | broken | broken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 arm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 broken | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 panicked | punct |
| 13 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 panicked | nsubj |
| 14 | panicked | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grabbed | cc |
| 16 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 panicked | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 keys | det |
| 18 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keys | compound |
| 19 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 grabbed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shouted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shouted | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 shouted | advmod |
| 23 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 shouted | nsubj |
| 24 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 laugh | advcl |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fools | punct |
| 26 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Fools | compound |
| 27 | Fools | fool | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 shouted | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 shouted | punct |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 24 shouted | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 laugh | punct |
| 31 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 laugh | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 laugh | aux |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 laugh | advmod |
| 34 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 laugh | punct |
| 36 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 39 joke | punct |
| 37 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 joke | aux |
| 38 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 joke | advmod |
| 39 | joke | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 laugh | ccomp |
| 40 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 41 getting | mark |
| 41 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 joke | advcl |
| 42 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 getting | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | Mia in Toronto | Mia's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | broken | past · perfect | Mia | Mia's arm | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | panic | past | Mum | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grab | past | Mum not said here | the car keys | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | past | Mia | April Fools | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not laugh | past · do-support | Mum | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not joke speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Mum not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | get in a quote | gerund | Mum not said here | hurt | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hurt=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:440-april-fools-day.lesson:15.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
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