Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 4
Sam's swimming rival Dev beats him by half a second every gala, so Sam trains at 6am three times a week; at the county gala he wins by a fingertip, and Dev says, «About time, mate.»
Who acts: swimming rival, Sam, rival, Dev · What happens: beat, train, win, say · To what, where: Dev, 6, county gala · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (swimming rival, Sam, rival, Dev), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rival | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rival | compound |
| 4 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beats | nsubj |
| 5 | Dev | Dev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 beats | nsubj |
| 6 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beats | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 gala | case |
| 9 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 11 second | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 second | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 gala | advmod |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 gala | det |
| 13 | gala | gala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beats | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trains | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 trains | advmod |
| 16 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 trains | nsubj |
| 17 | trains | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beats | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 6 | case |
| 19 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 trains | obl |
| 20 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 6 | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 times | nummod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 trains | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 week | det |
| 24 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 wins | punct |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 gala | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gala | det |
| 28 | county | county | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gala | compound |
| 29 | gala | gala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wins | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wins | nsubj |
| 31 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beats | parataxis |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 fingertip | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fingertip | det |
| 34 | fingertip | fingertip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wins | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 says | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 says | cc |
| 37 | Dev | Dev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 says | nsubj |
| 38 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beats | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 mate | punct |
| 40 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 44 mate | punct |
| 41 | About | about | ADP | _ | 42 time | case |
| 42 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 mate | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 time | punct |
| 44 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 says | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beats | punct |
| 46 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 beats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | Sam's swimming rival | Dev | by every gala | tree rules | |||
| 2 | train | present | Sam | 6 am | time | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | win | present | rival | the county gala | by a fingertip | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent at gala=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Dev | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:4.
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 ×4, 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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