Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 14
Lucy's grandpa in Kentucky told her that if she crossed her eyes too long they'd stay that way.
Who acts: grandpa, Kentucky, eyes · What happens: tell, cross, stay · To what, where: Kentucky, eyes, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grandpa, Kentucky, eyes), 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 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lucy | case |
| 3 | grandpa | grandpa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Kentucky | case |
| 5 | Kentucky | Kentucky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grandpa | nmod |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 crossed | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crossed | nsubj |
| 11 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stay | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crossed | obj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 crossed | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stay | nsubj |
| 17 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stay | aux |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | ccomp |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | Lucy's grandpa in Kentucky | Kentucky | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cross a condition, not said to happen | past | Kentucky | Kentucky's eyes | long property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 3 | stay | would | eyes = eye | that way | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:14.
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 ×3. 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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