A stranger's story, sentence 6
A man in a car in Ohio asked Noah, «Hey buddy, can you help me find my lost puppy?
Who acts: man, Noah · What happens: ask, help, find, lose · To what, where: Noah, man, lost puppy · 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 (man, Noah), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 car | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Ohio | case |
| 7 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 car | nmod |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buddy | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 buddy | punct |
| 12 | Hey | hey | INTJ | _ | 13 buddy | discourse |
| 13 | buddy | buddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | vocative |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 help | xcomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 puppy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 puppy | amod |
| 22 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- request
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- indirect
- yes
- teacher
- changed indirect=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | a man in a car in Ohio | Noah | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent noah=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | can | Noah | a man in a car in Ohio = man | buddy vocative | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | find in a quote | infinitive | a man in a car in Ohio = man not said here | my lost puppy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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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