Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 11

Gary moans about everything, the boss, the weather, the referee, but when Dad's car breaks down at midnight, Gary drives forty minutes to fetch him.

Who acts: Gary, car · What happens: moan, break down, drive, fetch · To what, where: Gary

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work» 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 (Gary, car), 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	Gary	Gary	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 moans	nsubj
2	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 everything	case
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 moans	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boss	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boss	det
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everything	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weather	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weather	det
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everything	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 referee	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 referee	det
13	referee	referee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weather	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 breaks	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 breaks	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 breaks	mark
17	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 car	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Dad	case
19	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breaks	nsubj
20	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 drives	advcl
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 breaks	compound:prt
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 midnight	case
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breaks	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 moans	punct
25	Gary	Gary	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 drives	nsubj
26	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 moans	conj
27	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 minutes	nummod
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 drives	obl:unmarked
29	to	to	PART	_	30 fetch	mark
30	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 drives	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fetch	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 moans	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Gary			about everything	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about everything=Topic
2	break down	present	Dad's car		midnight		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	drive	present	Gary		minute		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	fetch	to-infinitive	Gary not said here	Gary			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:482-mums-best-friend-and-dads-mate-from-work.lesson:11.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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