Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 2
He was proper mardy (sulky, in a bad mood) for a whole afternoon.
Who acts: Leeds · What happens: be
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), 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 | 4 mardy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mardy | cop |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mardy | amod |
| 4 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 sulky | punct |
| 6 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mardy | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mood | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mood | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mood | det |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mood | amod |
| 11 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mardy | parataxis |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 mood | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 afternoon | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 afternoon | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 afternoon | amod |
| 16 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mardy | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mardy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Leeds | afternoon | mardy property | tree rules |
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:2.
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 ×2. 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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