Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 3
Dad says it was a fence, or a dog, or a parked car: «They probably don't know either, son.» At Mrs Kowalski's funeral, Mr Shaw turns up in his best suit and shakes Mr Kowalski's hand.
Who acts: Dad, other, fence, Mr Shaw · What happens: say, be, park, not know, turn up, shake · To what, where: fence, funeral, hand · 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 (Dad, other, fence, Mr Shaw), 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 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fence | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fence | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fence | det |
| 6 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dog | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 dog | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fence | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 car | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 car | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 car | det |
| 14 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 car | amod |
| 15 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fence | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 17 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 18 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 19 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 22 know | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 car | conj |
| 23 | either | either | ADV | _ | 22 know | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | vocative |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 car | punct |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| 28 | At | at | ADP | _ | 32 funeral | case |
| 29 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Kowalski | Kowalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mrs | flat |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Mrs | case |
| 32 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 turns | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 funeral | punct |
| 34 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Shaw | compound |
| 35 | Shaw | Shaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 turns | nsubj |
| 36 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | conj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 turns | compound:prt |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 suit | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 suit | nmod:poss |
| 40 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 41 suit | amod |
| 41 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 turns | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 shakes | cc |
| 43 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 turns | conj |
| 44 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 hand | nmod:poss |
| 45 | Kowalski | Kowalski | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Mr | flat |
| 46 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 Mr | case |
| 47 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 shakes | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | other | a fence or a dog or a parked car | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | park | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | fence | son vocative; either, probably property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | turn up | present | Mr Shaw | Mrs's funeral | in Dad's best suit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at funeral=Location | |||
| 6 | shake | present | Mr Shaw not said here | Mr's hand | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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:3.
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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