Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 8
On Sam's birthday there's a free lolly: «Ten already?
Who acts: free lolly · What happens: be · To what, where: birthday
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 (free lolly), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 birthday | case |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sam | case |
| 4 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 's | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 's | expl |
| 6 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lolly | det |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lolly | amod |
| 9 | lolly | lolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 's | nsubj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ten | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ten | punct |
| 12 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 lolly | appos |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 Ten | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 's | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a free lolly | Sam's birthday; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location |
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:8.
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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