Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 23
The number 9 driver says «Mornin', trouble» to Jake, and one bad day, when Jake is crying, waits an extra minute: «You alright, son?» Jake says he's fine.
Who acts: number driver, Jake, You · What happens: say, cry, wait, alright, be · To what, where: trouble, Jake · 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 (number driver, Jake, You), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 driver | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driver | compound |
| 3 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 number | flat |
| 4 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mornin | punct |
| 7 | Mornin | morning | INTJ | _ | 9 trouble | discourse |
| 8 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mornin | punct |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 trouble | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Jake | case |
| 12 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 day | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 day | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 day | nummod |
| 16 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 day | amod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Jake | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crying | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 crying | advmod |
| 20 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 crying | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 crying | aux |
| 22 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 waits | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 waits | punct |
| 24 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 minute | det |
| 26 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 minute | amod |
| 27 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 waits | obj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 says | punct |
| 29 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 alright | punct |
| 30 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 alright | nsubj |
| 31 | alright | alright | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 says | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 alright | punct |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 alright | vocative |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 alright | punct |
| 35 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 37 says | punct |
| 36 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 says | nsubj |
| 37 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | parataxis |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fine | nsubj |
| 39 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 fine | cop |
| 40 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 says | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the number driver | trouble | Jake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic to jake=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present · progressive | Jake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | present | the number driver not said here | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | alright in a quote | present | You | son vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: ask | present | Jake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is | present | Jake | fine 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:23.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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