A stranger's story, sentence 7

He's just round the corner.» Noah said «Ask a grown-up» and ran home, and his dad called the police.

Who acts: man, Noah, grown, dad · What happens: be, say, ask, run, call · To what, where: police · 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, grown, dad), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 corner	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 corner	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 corner	advmod
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 corner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 corner	det
6	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 corner	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 corner	parataxis
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 Ask	punct
12	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 up	det
14	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Ask	obj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
16	up	up	ADV	_	14 grown	compound
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 Ask	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ran	cc
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
20	home	home	ADV	_	19 ran	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 called	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 dad	nmod:poss
24	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	nsubj
25	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 police	det
27	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 called	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	man		round the corner	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Noah			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	grown			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run in a quote	past	Noah not said here		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call in a quote	past	man's dad	the police		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient

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:7.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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