Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 16

Grandpa chuckled: «Well, it worked on your daddy.» Emma's uncle said Santa watched through the smoke alarm light.

Who acts: Grandpa, tablet, uncle, Santa · What happens: chuckle, work, say, watch · To what, where: alarm light · 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, tablet, uncle, Santa), 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	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chuckled	nsubj
2	chuckled	chuckle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 chuckled	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 chuckled	punct
5	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 worked	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Well	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worked	nsubj
8	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chuckled	ccomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 daddy	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 daddy	nmod:poss
11	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worked	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chuckled	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 chuckled	punct
14	Emma	Emma	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 uncle	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Emma	case
16	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Santa	Santa	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 watched	nsubj
19	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
20	through	through	ADP	_	24 light	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 light	det
22	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 alarm	compound
23	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 light	compound
24	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 watched	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	chuckle	past	Grandpa			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work in a quote	past	tablet		on your daddy	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on daddy=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Emma's uncle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	watch	past	Santa	the alarm light		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through light=Location

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:16.

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): 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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