Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 12
When he catches Kieran slipping a chocolate bar into his pocket, he doesn't call the police: «You'll sweep my shop every Saturday for a month, and then we're square» (even).
Who acts: Mr, You, we · What happens: catch, slip, not call, sweep, be · To what, where: Kieran, chocolate bar, pocket, police, shop · 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 (Mr, You, we), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 catches | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 catches | nsubj |
| 3 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 call | advcl |
| 4 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 catches | obj |
| 5 | slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 catches | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bar | det |
| 7 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bar | compound |
| 8 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipping | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slipping | obl | ||
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 catches | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 call | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 call | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 call | advmod |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 police | det |
| 18 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 call | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweep | punct |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweep | punct |
| 21 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 sweep | nsubj |
| 22 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sweep | aux |
| 23 | sweep | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 call | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shop | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweep | obj |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 Saturday | det |
| 27 | Saturday | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sweep | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 month | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 month | det |
| 30 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweep | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 square | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 square | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 square | advmod |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 square | nsubj |
| 35 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 square | cop |
| 36 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sweep | conj |
| 37 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 36 square | punct |
| 38 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 39 even | punct |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 square | advmod |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 square | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 call | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | Mr | Kieran | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slip | gerund | Mr not said here | a chocolate bar | Mr's pocket | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bar=Patient | |||
| 3 | not call speech: assert | present · do-support | Mr | the police | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent police=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | sweep in a quote | future | You | my shop | month; saturday | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | we | then | square property | 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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:12.
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. 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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