Too many details, too few, sentence 30
On the radio a man said «Everyone knows…», and Callum in Belfast asked who «everyone» was.
Who acts: man, Everyone, Callum · What happens: say, know, ask, « · To what, where: radio, everyone · 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 (man, Everyone, Callum), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 radio | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 radio | det |
| 3 | radio | radio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | « | « | SCONJ | _ | 9 knows | mark |
| 8 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 11 | » | » | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Callum | cc |
| 14 | Callum | Callum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Belfast | case |
| 16 | Belfast | Belfast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Callum | nmod |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 « | nsubj |
| 19 | « | « | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 « | obj |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 everyone | punct |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a man | the radio | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Callum in Belfast | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | « | past | everyone | tree rules |
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: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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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