Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 27
But you're right — I could've said we're busy.»
Who acts: you, I, we · What happens: be, say · 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 (you, I, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 right | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | aux |
| 8 | 've | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | aux |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 right | ccomp |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 busy | nsubj |
| 11 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 busy | cop |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | could · perfect | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | we | busy 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:27.
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): R8-pos-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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