The older kid's «trade», sentence 16
The game never came: «Ach, it glitched, the money's gone.» Money doesn't vanish — the cousin had spent it, and paid it back week by week, mardy (sulky) with Callum for a month.
Who acts: game, money, cousin · What happens: not come, glitch, be, not vanish, spend, pay back · To what, where: money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The older kid's «trade»» 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 (game, money, cousin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 glitched | punct |
| 7 | Ach | Ach | INTJ | Number=Sing | 10 glitched | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glitched | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 glitched | nsubj |
| 10 | glitched | glitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 money | det |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | cop |
| 15 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 glitched | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gone | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 vanish | punct |
| 18 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vanish | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 vanish | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 vanish | advmod |
| 21 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 glitched | conj |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 spent | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cousin | det |
| 24 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spent | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spent | aux |
| 26 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 vanish | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 spent | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 paid | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 paid | cc |
| 30 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 spent | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 paid | obj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 paid | compound:prt |
| 33 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 week | case |
| 35 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 paid | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 mardy | punct |
| 37 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 glitched | conj |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 sulky | punct |
| 39 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 mardy | parataxis |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 sulky | punct |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 Callum | case |
| 42 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 mardy | obl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 month | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 month | det |
| 45 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mardy | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past | the game | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | glitch in a quote | past | game | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the money | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not vanish | present · do-support | Money | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spend | past · perfect | the cousin | money | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ||||
| 6 | pay back | past | the cousin not said here | money | week | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset |
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:445-the-older-kids-trade.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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