Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 5
«I just couldn't buy ice cream every time that van came round, love.»
Who acts: Mum, van · What happens: not buy, come round · To what, where: ice cream, time
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 (Mum, van), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 buy | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 buy | advmod |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 buy | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 buy | advmod |
| 6 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cream | compound |
| 8 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 van | det |
| 12 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 love | punct |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 buy | vocative |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy in a quote | could | Mum | ice cream | time | love vocative | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=Theme | ||
| 2 | come round in a quote | past | that van | every time not said here | round property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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:5.
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, R6-punct-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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