A stranger's story, sentence 27

Next time, find a station worker to help her.» And in Sydney a lady asked Kai to help find her dog.

Who acts: you, lady · What happens: find, help, ask · To what, where: station worker, woman, Kai, Sydney, dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (you, lady), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 time	amod
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 worker	det
6	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worker	compound
7	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 worker	acl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 help	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct
13	And	and	CCONJ	_	18 asked	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Sydney	case
15	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 asked	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lady	det
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	nsubj
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	conj
19	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 asked	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 help	mark
21	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	xcomp
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 help	xcomp
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dog	nmod:poss
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	find	imperative	you not said here	a station worker			time	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worker=Topic
2	help	to-infinitive	you not said here	a station worker not said here	woman			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	a lady		Kai	Sydney		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent kai=Recipient clause=Topic
4	help not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	a lady not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	find not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	a lady not said here	woman's dog				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:27.

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): 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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