Comfortable families: enough, but not everything, sentence 7
In Denver, Ned asks why they haven't got a pool like his friend Maddox.
Who acts: Ned, families · What happens: ask, not get · To what, where: Denver, pool · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ned, families), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Denver | case |
| 2 | Denver | Denver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Denver | punct |
| 4 | Ned | Ned | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | nsubj |
| 5 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 got | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 asks | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pool | det |
| 12 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 friend | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pool | nmod |
| 16 | Maddox | Maddox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 friend | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asks | 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 | ask speech: ask | present | Ned | Denver | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not get | present · perfect | families = family | a pool | like Ned's friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pool=Stimulus |
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:7.
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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