The older kid's «trade», sentence 18
At the skatepark in Adelaide a teen told Kai, «Mate, you owe me twenty bucks for that lesson.» He'd shown Kai one trick, for fun; nobody had said a price.
Who acts: teen, Kai, nobody · What happens: tell, owe, show, say · To what, where: Kai, skatepark, twenty bucks, teen, one trick, price · 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 (teen, Kai, nobody), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 skatepark | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 skatepark | det |
| 3 | skatepark | skatepark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Adelaide | case |
| 5 | Adelaide | Adelaide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 skatepark | nmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 teen | det |
| 7 | teen | teen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mate | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 12 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owe | vocative |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 owe | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 owe | nsubj |
| 15 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 owe | iobj |
| 17 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 bucks | nummod |
| 18 | bucks | buck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 owe | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 lesson | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 lesson | det |
| 21 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owe | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 24 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 shown | nsubj |
| 25 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shown | aux |
| 26 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 told | parataxis |
| 27 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shown | iobj |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 trick | nummod |
| 29 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shown | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fun | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 fun | case |
| 32 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shown | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 34 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 36 said | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 said | aux |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 told | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 price | det |
| 38 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 said | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a teen | Kai | the skatepark in Adelaide | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent kai=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | owe in a quote | present | Kai | twenty bucks | a teen = teen | for that lesson; Mate vocative | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal buck=Theme | ||
| 3 | show | past · perfect | teen | one trick | Kai | for fun | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kai=Recipient trick=Topic | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | nobody | a price | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent price=Topic |
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:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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