Mum's best friend and Dad's mate from work, sentence 26
Lily's dad and Pete fish for six hours and say about nine words: «Best day of my week, that.» And when Maddie's mum's friend Donna visits from Newcastle, they're soon talking pure Geordie: «Howay man, divvent be daft, that gadgie was mental» («come on, don't be silly, that bloke was mad»).
Who acts: dad, that, friend, words, gadgie, bloke · What happens: fish, say, day, visit, talk, be · To what, where: nine words, Newcastle, pure Geordie, mental », mad » · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dad, that, friend, words), 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 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Lily | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Pete | cc |
| 5 | Pete | Pete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | conj |
| 6 | fish | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hours | case |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hours | nummod |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fish | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fish | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 13 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 words | nummod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 say | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 17 | Best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 words | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 week | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 week | nmod:poss |
| 21 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 day | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fish | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 34 visits | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 talking | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 visits | advmod |
| 28 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 mum | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Maddie | case |
| 30 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 friend | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 mum | case |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 visits | nsubj |
| 33 | Donna | Donna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 friend | appos |
| 34 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 talking | advcl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Newcastle | case |
| 36 | Newcastle | Newcastle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 visits | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 talking | punct |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 talking | nsubj |
| 39 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 talking | aux |
| 40 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 talking | advmod |
| 41 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fish | conj |
| 42 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Geordie | amod |
| 43 | Geordie | geordie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 talking | obj |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 « | punct |
| 45 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 51 daft | punct |
| 46 | Howay | howay | INTJ | _ | 47 man | discourse |
| 47 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 daft | vocative |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 divvent | punct |
| 49 | divvent | divvent | X | _ | 45 « | flat |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 daft | cop |
| 51 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Geordie | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 » | punct |
| 53 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 gadgie | det |
| 54 | gadgie | gadgie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 » | nsubj |
| 55 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 » | cop |
| 56 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 » | amod |
| 57 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 daft | appos |
| 58 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 60 come | punct |
| 59 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 60 come | punct |
| 60 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 57 » | conj |
| 61 | on | on | ADV | _ | 60 come | advmod |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 » | punct |
| 63 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 talking | conj |
| 64 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 66 silly | advmod |
| 65 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 66 silly | cop |
| 66 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 63 do | xcomp |
| 67 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 72 » | punct |
| 68 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 69 bloke | det |
| 69 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 » | nsubj |
| 70 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 72 » | cop |
| 71 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 72 » | amod |
| 72 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 do | parataxis |
| 73 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 72 » | punct |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | present | Lily's dad and Pete | hour | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Lily's dad and Pete not said here | nine words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | day in a quote | that | week | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | visit | present | Maddie's mum's friend | Newcastle | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | talk | present · progressive | words = word | pure Geordie | soon property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent geordie=Patient | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | words = word not said here | man vocative; daft property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | that gadgie | mental » | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | come on in a quote | infinitive | that gadgie not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | do in a quote | infinitive | words = word not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | not is in a quote | infinitive | words = word not said here | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | is a | past | that bloke | mad » | tree rules |
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:26.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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