The row over a game, sentence 22
Jake and Kieran each swear they touched the lamppost first, and don't speak for a week, until Kieran's little sister says, «You both touched it at the same time, you eejits.» Lily and Maddie shout about whether tig-backs (tagging straight back the person who tagged you) are allowed, while the other kids wander off to play football.
Who acts: Jake, rows, little sister, You, Lily, tig backs · What happens: swear, touch, not speak, say, eejit, shout · To what, where: lamppost, person, you, tig backs, football · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The row over a game» 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 (Jake, rows, little sister, You), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 swear | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Kieran | cc |
| 3 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jake | conj |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 swear | advmod |
| 5 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touched | nsubj |
| 7 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swear | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lamppost | det |
| 9 | lamppost | lamppost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | obj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 touched | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 speak | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 speak | cc |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 speak | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 speak | advmod |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swear | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 week | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 week | det |
| 18 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 speak | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 says | punct |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 says | mark |
| 21 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Kieran | case |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sister | amod |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 says | nsubj |
| 25 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 touched | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 touched | punct |
| 27 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 30 touched | punct |
| 28 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 touched | nsubj |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 touched | advmod |
| 30 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 says | ccomp |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 touched | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 touched | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 eejits | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 eejits | nsubj |
| 38 | eejits | eejit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swear | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 eejits | punct |
| 40 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 38 eejits | punct |
| 41 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 shout | nsubj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 Maddie | cc |
| 43 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Lily | conj |
| 44 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 eejits | parataxis |
| 45 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 61 allowed | mark |
| 46 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 61 allowed | mark |
| 47 | tig | tig | NOUN | _ | 49 backs | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 backs | punct |
| 49 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 51 tagging | punct |
| 51 | tagging | tag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 49 backs | acl |
| 52 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 53 back | advmod |
| 53 | back | back | ADV | _ | 51 tagging | advmod |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 person | det |
| 55 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tagging | obj |
| 56 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 tagged | nsubj |
| 57 | tagged | tag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 person | acl:relcl |
| 58 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 57 tagged | obj |
| 59 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 51 tagging | punct |
| 60 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 allowed | aux:pass |
| 61 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 shout | ccomp |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 wander | punct |
| 63 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 67 wander | mark |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 kids | det |
| 65 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 kids | amod |
| 66 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 67 wander | nsubj |
| 67 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 61 allowed | conj |
| 68 | off | off | ADP | _ | 67 wander | compound:prt |
| 69 | to | to | PART | _ | 70 play | mark |
| 70 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 67 wander | advcl |
| 71 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 70 play | obj |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | Jake and Kieran | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | rows = row | the lamppost | first property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lamppost=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | not speak speech: other | present · do-support | Jake and Kieran not said here | week | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Kieran's little sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | touch in a quote | past | You | lamppost | time | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||
| 6 | eejit in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | shout speech: express | present | Lily and Maddie | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | tag | gerund | tig backs not said here | the person | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent person=Destination | ||||
| 9 | tag | past | the person | you | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Destination | ||||
| 10 | allow | present · passive | tig backs | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 11 | wander off | present | the other kids | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 12 | play | to-infinitive | the other kids not said here | football | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Theme |
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:475-the-row-over-a-game.lesson:22.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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