The new kid and the first day, sentence 17
Chloe, new from Belfast, gets asked «why d'you talk funny?» «Cos I'm Irish, so I am,» she says, and within a week she's teaching them «what's the craic?» — Irish for «what's going on?».
Who acts: Chloe · What happens: ask, talk, be, teach, go on · To what, where: Chloe, words, craic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The new kid and the first day» 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 (Chloe), 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 | Chloe | Chloe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 new | punct |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Chloe | amod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Belfast | case |
| 5 | Belfast | belfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 new | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chloe | punct |
| 7 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | aux:pass |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 talk | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 talk | advmod |
| 11 | d'you | d'you | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 talk | dep |
| 12 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 talk | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 talk | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 talk | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 Irish | punct |
| 17 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 20 Irish | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Irish | nsubj |
| 19 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Irish | cop |
| 20 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 says | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 am | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 am | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | cop |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 28 says | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 says | nsubj |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 teaching | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 teaching | cc |
| 31 | within | within | ADP | _ | 33 week | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 week | det |
| 33 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 teaching | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 teaching | nsubj |
| 35 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 teaching | aux |
| 36 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 teaching | obj |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 42 craic | punct |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 craic | nsubj |
| 40 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 craic | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 craic | det |
| 42 | craic | craic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 teaching | obl |
| 43 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 teaching | punct |
| 44 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 teaching | punct |
| 45 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 Irish | punct |
| 46 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | conj |
| 47 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 51 going | mark |
| 48 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 51 going | punct |
| 49 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 51 going | nsubj |
| 50 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 going | aux |
| 51 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 Irish | advcl |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 going | compound:prt |
| 53 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 51 going | punct |
| 54 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 46 Irish | punct |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · passive | Chloe | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | infinitive | funny property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Chloe | irish property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be speech: assert | present | Chloe | say property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other | present · progressive | Chloe | words = word | week | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the craic | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go on in a quote | present · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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:465-the-new-kid-and-the-first-day.lesson:17.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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