The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 27
Ellie borrows Maddie's spelling tricks «for luck» and wins the class round; Maddie says «well done» through her teeth, makes new tricks, keeps them to herself, and wins next term.
Who acts: Ellie, Maddie · What happens: borrow, win, say, do, make, keep · To what, where: spelling tricks, class round, teeth, new tricks, tricks, Maddie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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 (Ellie, Maddie), 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 | Ellie | Ellie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 borrows | nsubj |
| 2 | borrows | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Maddie | case |
| 5 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tricks | compound |
| 6 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 borrows | obj |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 luck | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 luck | case |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tricks | nmod |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 wins | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wins | cc |
| 12 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 borrows | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 class | det |
| 14 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 round | compound |
| 15 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wins | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 17 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 borrows | parataxis |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 done | advmod |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 says | xcomp |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 done | punct |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 teeth | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 done | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 makes | punct |
| 27 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 says | conj |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tricks | amod |
| 29 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 makes | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 keeps | punct |
| 31 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 makes | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 keeps | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 herself | case |
| 34 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 keeps | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wins | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wins | cc |
| 37 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 borrows | conj |
| 38 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 term | amod |
| 39 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wins | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 borrows | 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 | borrow | present | Ellie | Maddie's spelling tricks | for luck | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | |||
| 2 | win | present | Ellie not said here | class round | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | Maddie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | participle | Maddie not said here | Maddie's teeth | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | make | present | Maddie not said here | new tricks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trick=Product | ||||
| 6 | keep | present | Maddie not said here | tricks = trick | Maddie | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 7 | win | present | Ellie not said here | next term | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | trick | Maddie | for luck | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:27.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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