The new kid and the first day, sentence 24

When Kieran tells a new boy «you can't play, we've got enough», a teacher has a quiet word — and the new boy turns out better at football than all of them.

Who acts: Kieran, new boy, we, teacher · What happens: tell, not play, get, have, turn out · To what, where: new boy, enough, quiet word · 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 (Kieran, new boy, we, teacher), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 tells	mark
2	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 play	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 play	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 play	nsubj
9	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 play	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 play	advmod
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 play	parataxis
16	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 got	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 play	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 teacher	det
20	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 play	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
23	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 word	amod
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
25	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 football	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 turns	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boy	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boy	amod
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turns	nsubj
30	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 has	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 turns	compound:prt
32	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 turns	advmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 football	case
34	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 better	obl
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 football	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 all	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Kieran		a new boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
2	not play in a quote	can	a new boy = boy				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get in a quote	present · perfect	we	enough			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
4	have	present	a teacher	a quiet word			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
5	turn out	present	the new boy			well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:24.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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