Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 1

He believed it till he was eight — then he saw kids walking past the van with cones while the music played.

Who acts: Leeds, kids, music · What happens: believe, be, see, walk, play · To what, where: music, eight, kids, van

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 (Leeds, kids, music), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 believed	obj
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 eight	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eight	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eight	cop
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 believed	advcl
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	parataxis
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saw	obj
13	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 saw	xcomp
14	past	past	ADP	_	16 van	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 van	det
16	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walking	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 cones	case
18	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 walking	obl
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 played	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 music	det
21	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 played	nsubj
22	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 walking	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 believed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	Leeds	music				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	is a	past	Leeds	eight				tree rules
3	see	past	Leeds	kids		then		tree rules
4	walk	gerund	kids not said here		the van		with cones	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past van=Trajectory
5	play	past	the music					vn performance-26.7-1 «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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:1.

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 ×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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