Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 27

At a sleepover in Kent, Leo-Ray burns the toast because at home staff always made it, and everyone laughs; he laughs too, then asks his friend's mum to show him.

Who acts: Leo, home staff, everyone, staff · What happens: burn, make, laugh, ask, show · To what, where: toast, sleepover, mum, staff

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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 (Leo, home staff, everyone, staff), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sleepover	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sleepover	det
3	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burns	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Kent	case
5	Kent	Kent	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sleepover	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sleepover	punct
7	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 burns	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Ray	punct
9	Ray	Ray	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Leo	flat
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toast	det
12	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burns	obj
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 staff	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 staff	compound
16	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	nsubj
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 burns	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laughs	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laughs	cc
22	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 laughs	nsubj
23	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 burns	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 asks	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 laughs	nsubj
26	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 burns	parataxis
27	too	too	ADV	_	26 laughs	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asks	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 asks	advmod
30	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 laughs	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friend	nmod:poss
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mum	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 friend	case
34	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 asks	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 show	mark
36	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 asks	xcomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 show	iobj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 burns	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	burn	present	Leo	the toast		a sleepover in Kent			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toast=Theme
2	make	past	home staff	toast				always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	laugh	present	everyone						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	laugh	present	staff						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	present	staff not said here		staff's friend's mum		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
6	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	staff not said here		staff				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:27.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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