The older kid's «trade», sentence 9
Ben's mum asked where it came from; it went to the police, and Ben got his bike back — just.
Who acts: mum, boss, Ben · What happens: ask, come, go, get back · To what, where: police, bike · 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 (mum, boss, Ben), 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 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Ben | case |
| 3 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 came | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 came | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 police | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 police | det |
| 14 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 17 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bike | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Ben's mum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | boss | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | boss | the police | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to police=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | get back | past | Ben | Ben's bike | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bike=Stimulus |
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:9.
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): 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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