Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 12
In Birmingham, after a row about homework, Dhruv's mum shouts and his dad says nothing all evening, and Dhruv doesn't know which is worse.
Who acts: mum, dad, Dhruv · What happens: shout, say, not know, be · To what, where: Birmingham, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Shouty parents and bad days» 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 (mum, dad, Dhruv), 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 Birmingham | case |
| 2 | Birmingham | Birmingham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shouts | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Birmingham | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 row | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 row | det |
| 6 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouts | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 homework | case |
| 8 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 row | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouts | punct |
| 10 | Dhruv | Dhruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mum | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Dhruv | case |
| 12 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouts | nsubj |
| 13 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 says | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dad | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | nsubj |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shouts | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 says | obj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 evening | det |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 says | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 know | cc |
| 23 | Dhruv | Dhruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 know | nsubj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 know | advmod |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 shouts | conj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 worse | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 worse | cop |
| 29 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 know | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | Dhruv's mum | Birmingham | after a row about homework | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Dhruv's dad | nothing | evening | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | Dhruv | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | bad property | 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:494-shouty-parents-and-bad-days.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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