Too many details, too few, sentence 10
Mia's friend Lucy said she couldn't come to the sleepover because of «a family thing».
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, not come · To what, where: sleepover · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Too many details, too few» 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 (friend), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Mia | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | appos |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sleepover | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sleepover | det |
| 12 | sleepover | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 thing | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 because | fixed |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | compound |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mia's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not come | could | friend | the sleepover | because a family thing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleepover=Initial_Location |
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:450-too-many-details-too-few.lesson:10.
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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