The check that settles it, sentence 11
«It were me, you donut!» («It were» is Yorkshire for «it was».) A kid had filmed it on a tablet: it went in off Liam's knee, and everyone howled.
Who acts: goal, kid, everyone · What happens: be, film, go in, howl · To what, where: Two lads, Yorkshire, goal, tablet, knee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The check that settles it» 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 (goal, kid, everyone), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 me | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 me | cop |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 filmed | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 donut | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 donut | dep |
| 7 | donut | donut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 me | vocative |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yorkshire | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 were | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Yorkshire | parataxis |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Yorkshire | cop |
| 16 | Yorkshire | Yorkshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 me | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 it | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Yorkshire | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 it | aux |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yorkshire | punct |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yorkshire | punct |
| 24 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 kid | det |
| 25 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 filmed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 filmed | aux |
| 27 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 filmed | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 tablet | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 tablet | det |
| 31 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 filmed | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 filmed | parataxis |
| 35 | in | in | ADV | _ | 34 went | advmod |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 knee | case |
| 37 | Liam | Liam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 knee | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 Liam | case |
| 39 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 howled | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 howled | cc |
| 42 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 43 howled | nsubj |
| 43 | howled | howl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 went | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 filmed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | goal | Two lads in Leeds = lad | donut vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Yorkshire | for goal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | film | past · perfect | a kid | goal | a tablet | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go in | past | goal | Liam's knee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme off knee=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | howl | past | everyone | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:11.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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