The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 12
«He's actually alright, y'know,» says Kieran, chewing.
Who acts: Sam, Kieran · What happens: be, say, chew · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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 (Sam, Kieran), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 alright | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 alright | cop |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 alright | advmod |
| 5 | alright | alright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alright | punct |
| 7 | y'know | y'know | INTJ | _ | 5 alright | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alright | punct |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 says | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chewing | punct |
| 13 | chewing | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 says | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Sam | actually, alright property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Kieran | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chew | gerund | Kieran not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: 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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:12.
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): 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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