Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 0
Every May, Mill Lane Juniors play Station Road Rovers, and the Rovers' parents chant «Mill Lane, Mill Lane, can't play a game!» Mill Lane lose 4–1 and Sam misses a sitter (an easy chance to score).
Who acts: Lane Juniors, parents, Mill Lane, Sam · What happens: play, chant, not play, lose, miss, score · To what, where: Road Rovers, game, 4 1, sitter
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 (Lane Juniors, parents, Mill Lane, Sam), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 May | det |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 play | punct |
| 4 | Mill | Mill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lane | compound |
| 5 | Lane | Lane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Juniors | compound |
| 6 | Juniors | junior | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 play | nsubj |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Road | compound |
| 9 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rovers | compound |
| 10 | Rovers | rover | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 play | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chant | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chant | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rovers | det |
| 14 | Rovers | rover | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 Rovers | case |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chant | nsubj |
| 17 | chant | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 play | conj |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 Lane | punct |
| 19 | Mill | Mill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lane | compound |
| 20 | Lane | Lane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 play | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lane | punct |
| 22 | Mill | Mill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lane | compound |
| 23 | Lane | Lane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Lane | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 play | punct |
| 25 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 play | aux |
| 26 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 play | advmod |
| 27 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 play | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 game | det |
| 29 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 play | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 lose | punct |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 lose | punct |
| 32 | Mill | Mill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Lane | compound |
| 33 | Lane | Lane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 lose | nsubj |
| 34 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 play | conj |
| 35 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 1 | compound |
| 36 | – | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 1 | punct |
| 37 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 lose | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 misses | cc |
| 39 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 misses | nsubj |
| 40 | misses | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 lose | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 sitter | det |
| 42 | sitter | sitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 misses | obj |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 chance | punct |
| 44 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 chance | det |
| 45 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 chance | amod |
| 46 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sitter | appos |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 score | mark |
| 48 | score | score | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 chance | acl |
| 49 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 chance | punct |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 play | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Lane Juniors | Road Rovers | may | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rover=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | chant | present | the Rovers's parents | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not play in a quote | can | Lane Juniors not said here | a game | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | present | Mill Lane | 4 1 | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | miss | present | Sam | a sitter | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sitter=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | score | to-infinitive | Sam not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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