Stories that change, sentence 20
They'd been behind the bike shed, and laughed about the detention later.
Who acts: details · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: bike shed
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 (details), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 been | nsubj |
| 2 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 been | aux |
| 3 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 shed | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shed | det |
| 6 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shed | compound |
| 7 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 been | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laughed | cc |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 been | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 detention | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 detention | det |
| 13 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laughed | obl |
| 14 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 laughed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 been | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past · perfect | details = detail | the bike shed | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind shed=Location | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | details = detail not said here | about the detention; late property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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:449-stories-that-change.lesson:20.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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