Stories that change, sentence 16
In Cork, a teacher asked two boys separately where they'd been at lunch.
Who acts: teacher, boys · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: two boys, Cork, lunch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Stories that change» 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 (teacher, boys), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Cork | case |
| 2 | Cork | Cork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cork | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 boys | nummod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | obj |
| 9 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lunch | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lunch | nsubj |
| 12 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lunch | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 lunch | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 lunch | case |
| 15 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 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 | a teacher | two boys | Cork | separately property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | boys = boy | lunch | tree rules |
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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:16.
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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