Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 19
He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a new one.
Who acts: Torquil · What happens: rage, start, do, earn · To what, where: chores, new one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Comfortable families: enough, but not everything» 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 (Torquil), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raging | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 raging | aux |
| 3 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Scots | punct |
| 5 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 raging | parataxis |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 furious | case |
| 7 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Scots | nmod |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Scots | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 starts | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | _ | 11 starts | advmod |
| 11 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 raging | conj |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 starts | xcomp |
| 13 | chores | chore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 doing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 earn | mark |
| 15 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 doing | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 earn | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raging | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | present · progressive | Torquil | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | start | present | Torquil not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | Torquil not said here | chores | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chore=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | earn | to-infinitive | Torquil not said here | a new one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything.lesson:19.
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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