«Only one left!»: shops and adverts, sentence 5

The sign wasn't there to tell Ava something; it was there to hurry her so she would buy before she thought.

Who acts: sign, «, Ava · What happens: not be, tell, be, hurry, buy, think · To what, where: something, Ava · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson ««Only one left!»: shops and adverts» 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 (sign, «, Ava), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 there	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 there	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 there	advcl
8	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	iobj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 tell	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 there	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 there	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 there	cop
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 there	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hurry	mark
15	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 there	advcl
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurry	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 buy	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 buy	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 buy	aux
20	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hurry	conj
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 thought	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 buy	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the sign			there property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the sign not said here	something	Ava		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ava=Recipient something=Topic
3	is	past	«			there property	tree rules
4	hurry	to-infinitive	« not said here	Ava			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Agent
5	buy	would	Ava				vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	Ava				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: 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:441-only-one-left-shops-and-adverts.lesson:5.

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. 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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