The secret that got told, sentence 18
Kieran tells Connor his dad lost his job and they might move.
Who acts: Kieran, dad, parents · What happens: tell, lose, move, job · To what, where: Connor, job · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» 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 (Kieran, dad, parents), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tells | obj |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dad | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tells | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 job | nmod:poss |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 move | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 move | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 move | aux |
| 12 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lost | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Kieran | Connor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent connor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Kieran's dad | Kieran's job | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | move | might | parents = parent | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | job | Kieran | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:18.
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): no change. 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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