Warm parents and strict parents, sentence 26
In Essex, where screens and sweets are strictly limited, Albie eats a whole bag of sweets at his mate's and is sick on the way home; now he knows why Mum's strict.
Who acts: Albie · What happens: eat, be, know · To what, where: whole bag, Essex, way, Mum
This is a sentence of the lesson «Warm parents and strict parents» 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 (Albie), 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 Essex | case |
| 2 | Essex | Essex | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eats | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Essex | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 limited | advmod |
| 5 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 limited | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sweets | cc |
| 7 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 screens | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 limited | aux:pass |
| 9 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 10 limited | advmod |
| 10 | limited | limited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Essex | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Essex | punct |
| 12 | Albie | Albie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 eats | nsubj |
| 13 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bag | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bag | amod |
| 16 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eats | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sweets | case |
| 18 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bag | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 mate | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mate | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eats | obl |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 mate | case |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sick | cc |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sick | cop |
| 25 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eats | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 way | det |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sick | obl |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 way | advmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 knows | punct |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 knows | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 knows | nsubj |
| 33 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eats | parataxis |
| 34 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 strict | advmod |
| 35 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 strict | nsubj |
| 36 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 Mum | cop |
| 37 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 knows | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Albie | a whole bag of sweets | Essex | at Albie's mate | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | present | Albie not said here | the way | sick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | present | Albie | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Mum | tree rules |
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:493-warm-parents-and-strict-parents.lesson:26.
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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