What a real friend is, sentence 22
«obvs. bingo ladies.» Sam's dog Scout waits at the door at 3.40 every day, tail going like a windscreen wiper on full.
Who acts: dog, tail · What happens: wait, go · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of the lesson «What a real friend is» 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 (dog, tail), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 ladies | punct |
| 2 | obvs | obv | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ladies | dep |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 « | punct |
| 4 | bingo | bingo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ladies | compound |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ladies | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 ladies | punct |
| 8 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dog | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sam | case |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waits | nsubj |
| 11 | Scout | scout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dog | flat |
| 12 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ladies | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 door | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waits | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 3.40 | case |
| 17 | 3.40 | 3.40 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 waits | obl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waits | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tail | punct |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | nsubj |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 waits | advcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 wiper | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wiper | det |
| 25 | windscreen | windscreen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wiper | compound |
| 26 | wiper | wiper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 going | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 full | case |
| 28 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wiper | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | Sam's dog | the door | day | at 3.40 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | ||
| 2 | go | gerund | tail | like a windscreen wiper on full | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:485-what-a-real-friend-is.lesson:22.
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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