The older kid's «trade», sentence 26
A teen on a bus in Singapore offered Rohan «a better phone case, half price, can or not?» («can or not» means «yes or no?»).
Who acts: teen, can · What happens: offer, means · To what, where: better phone case, Rohan
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, can), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 teen | det |
| 2 | teen | teen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 bus | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bus | det |
| 5 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teen | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Singapore | case |
| 7 | Singapore | Singapore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bus | nmod |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Rohan | Rohan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | iobj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 case | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 case | det |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 case | amod |
| 13 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 case | compound |
| 14 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 price | punct |
| 16 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 price | amod |
| 17 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 case | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 can | punct |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 offered | advcl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 not | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 can | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 offered | punct |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 offered | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 26 | can | can | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 means | nsubj |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 not | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 can | conj |
| 29 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 can | punct |
| 30 | means | means | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 offered | parataxis |
| 31 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 32 yes | punct |
| 32 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 30 means | conj |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 yes | cc |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 36 » | det |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 30 means | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | a teen on a bus in Singapore | a better phone case | Rohan | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent rohan=Goal case=Theme | |||
| 2 | means | present | can | 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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:26.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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