Too many details, too few, sentence 23

Ava's cousin told a story about a bear at a campsite: the smell, the scrape of claws on the bin, her dad shouting in his pants.

Who acts: cousin, dad · What happens: tell, shout, scrape · To what, where: story, pants, claws · 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 (cousin, dad), 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 bear	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 campsite	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 campsite	det
12	campsite	campsite	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bear	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 smell	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 smell	det
15	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 campsite	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scrape	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 scrape	det
18	scrape	scrape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 campsite	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 claws	case
20	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 scrape	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 bin	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bin	det
23	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 claws	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shouting	punct
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 dad	nmod:poss
26	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shouting	nsubj
27	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 pants	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pants	nmod:poss
30	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	27 shouting	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Ava's cousin	a story		about a bear at a campsite and the smell and the scrape of claws on the bin	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent story=Recipient about bear=Topic
2	shout speech: express	gerund	cousin's dad		dad's pants		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scrape			claws on the bin			nom scrape «event transitive»: of=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:450-too-many-details-too-few.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): R5-strong ×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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