Too many details, too few, sentence 12
The next week Lucy told her she was scared of sleepovers, and Mia said «Come for tea instead, then go home.» Not every vague answer needs cracking open; sometimes leaving space lets people tell you later.
Who acts: Lucy, Mia, vague answer, leaving, people · What happens: tell, be, say, come, go, not need · To what, where: Mia, space, people, you · 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 (Lucy, Mia, vague answer, leaving), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 week | amod |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Lucy | Lucy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scared | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scared | cop |
| 9 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sleepovers | case |
| 11 | sleepovers | sleepover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 14 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 Come | punct |
| 17 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 tea | case |
| 19 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Come | obl |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 17 Come | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Come | conj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 needs | punct |
| 27 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 needs | advmod |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 answer | det |
| 29 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 answer | amod |
| 30 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 needs | nsubj |
| 31 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 32 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 needs | xcomp |
| 33 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cracking | xcomp |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 leaving | punct |
| 35 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 leaving | advmod |
| 36 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 lets | csubj |
| 37 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 leaving | obj |
| 38 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 needs | parataxis |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 lets | obj |
| 40 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 lets | xcomp |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 tell | obj |
| 42 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 tell | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Lucy | Mia | week | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Mia | of sleepovers; scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mia | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | for tea; instead property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not need | present | every vague answer | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | crack not said to happen | gerund | every vague answer not said here | open property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leave | gerund | space | sometimes property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme | ||||
| 9 | let | present | leaving | people | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | people not said here | you | late property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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:12.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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