Stories that change, sentence 23

Tom's little brother said the dog ate the cake — but the dog was locked in the garden, and the brother had chocolate on his chin.

Who acts: little brother, dog, brother · What happens: say, eat, lock, have · To what, where: cake, dog, garden, chocolate, chin · 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 (little brother, dog, brother), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brother	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Tom	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cake	det
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj
11	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 locked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 locked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 locked	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 locked	aux:pass
16	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 locked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 brother	det
23	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 locked	conj
25	chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 chin	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 chin	nmod:poss
28	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tom's little brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	past	the dog	the cake		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
3	lock	past · passive		the dog	the garden	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	have	past	the brother	chocolate	brother's chin	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chocolate=Patient

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:23.

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): no change. 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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