Joining a game, and the shy kid, sentence 14
At his cousin's birthday Kieran knows nobody and hides in the kitchen with the dog, until his auntie hands him a bowl: «Be a love, go round with the crisps.» Suddenly everyone talks to him, mostly about crisps.
Who acts: Kieran, auntie, everyone · What happens: know, hide, hand, be, go round, talk · To what, where: nobody, birthday, kitchen, bowl, Jake, love
This is a sentence of the lesson «Joining a game, and the shy kid» 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, auntie, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 birthday | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cousin | case |
| 5 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knows | obl |
| 6 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knows | nsubj |
| 7 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 knows | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hides | cc |
| 10 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knows | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 kitchen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kitchen | det |
| 13 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hides | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 dog | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hides | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hands | punct |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 hands | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 auntie | nmod:poss |
| 20 | auntie | auntie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hands | nsubj |
| 21 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knows | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hands | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bowl | det |
| 24 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hands | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 love | punct |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 love | punct |
| 27 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 love | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 love | det |
| 29 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bowl | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 love | punct |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 love | parataxis |
| 32 | round | round | ADV | _ | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 crisps | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 crisps | det |
| 35 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 go | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 40 talks | punct |
| 38 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 40 talks | advmod |
| 39 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 talks | nsubj |
| 40 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 knows | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 talks | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 crisps | punct |
| 44 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 46 crisps | advmod |
| 45 | about | about | ADP | _ | 46 crisps | case |
| 46 | crisps | crisp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 talks | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Kieran | nobody | Jake's cousin's birthday | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hide | present | Kieran not said here | the kitchen | with the dog | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location | |||
| 3 | hand | present | Jake's auntie | a bowl and a love | Jake | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bowl=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | infinitive | Jake's auntie not said here | a love | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go round in a quote | infinitive | with the crisps; round property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with crisp=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | talk | present | everyone | Jake | about crisps; suddenly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent about crisp=Topic |
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:466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid.lesson:14.
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, 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.
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