Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 0
Two old men on Sam's street, Mr Shaw and Mr Kowalski, haven't spoken in eleven years.
Who acts: Two old men · What happens: not speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (Two old men), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spoken | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 street | case |
| 5 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 street | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sam | case |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Shaw | punct |
| 9 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Shaw | compound |
| 10 | Shaw | Shaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 street | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Mr | cc |
| 12 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Shaw | conj |
| 13 | Kowalski | Kowalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Mr | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoken | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 spoken | advmod |
| 17 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spoken | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | present · perfect | Two old men on Sam's street | year | vn talk-37.5 «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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:0.
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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