Sleepovers and inside jokes, sentence 22

His best mate Tom spots it, says nothing, swaps sleeping bags and spills a drink «by accident» on the wet one.

Who acts: best mate · What happens: spot, say, swap, spill · To what, where: bed, nothing, sleeping bags, drink · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleepovers and inside jokes» 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 (best mate), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 mate	amod
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spots	nsubj
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spots	nsubj
5	spots	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spots	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spots	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 swaps	punct
11	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
12	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bags	compound
13	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 swaps	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spills	cc
15	spills	spill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 drink	det
17	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spills	obj
18	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 accident	case
20	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drink	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 accident	punct
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 one	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 spills	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spots	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spot	present	Kieran's best mate	bed		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
2	say speech: assert	present	Kieran's best mate not said here	nothing		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	swap	present	Kieran's best mate not said here	sleeping bags		vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
4	spill	present	Kieran's best mate not said here	a drink	on the wet one	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drink=Theme

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:462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes.lesson:22.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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