Stories that change, sentence 30
Kai's mate swore he'd seen a shark at the beach.
Who acts: mate · What happens: swear, see · To what, where: shark, beach
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 (mate), 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 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Kai | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swore | nsubj |
| 4 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj |
| 6 | 'd | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 swore | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shark | det |
| 9 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 beach | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beach | det |
| 12 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | Kai's mate | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | mate | a shark | the beach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus |
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:30.
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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