The older kid's «trade», sentence 38
Things sold by strangers on buses or in car parks usually cannot be returned.
What happens: sell, not return · To what, where: Things, buses
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: 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Things | acl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 strangers | case |
| 4 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sold | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 buses | case |
| 6 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sold | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 parks | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 parks | case |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parks | compound |
| 10 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 buses | conj |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 returned | advmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 returned | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 returned | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 returned | aux:pass |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | participle | Things not said here | buses or car parks | by strangers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent on bus=Asset | |||
| 2 | not return | can · passive | Things | usually property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:445-the-older-kids-trade.lesson:38.
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. 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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