Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 36
A lollipop lady or man helps children cross the road outside school; «chuck» is a Northern word for «dear».
Who acts: lollipop lady, children · What happens: help, cross, be · To what, where: road, Northern word
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 (lollipop lady, children), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | lollipop | lollipop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lady | compound |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 man | cc |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lady | conj |
| 6 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cross | nsubj |
| 8 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helps | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cross | obj |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 12 school | case |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 chuck | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 15 chuck | punct |
| 15 | chuck | chuck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 road | appos |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 chuck | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 word | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 19 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 word | amod |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 helps | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 dear | case |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 23 dear | punct |
| 23 | dear | dear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 word | nmod |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 23 dear | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a lollipop lady or man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cross | infinitive | children | the road | outside school | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a Northern word | for dear | 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:36.
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 ×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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