Shouty parents and bad days, sentence 23
In Glasgow, the car breaks down and Aimee's dad loses it and kicks the tyre, and Aimee goes very still in the back seat.
Who acts: car, dad, Aimee · What happens: break down, lose, kick, go · To what, where: Glasgow, car, tyre, back seat
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 (car, dad, Aimee), 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 Glasgow | case |
| 2 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 breaks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Glasgow | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breaks | nsubj |
| 6 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 breaks | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 loses | cc |
| 9 | Aimee | Aimee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dad | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Aimee | case |
| 11 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loses | nsubj |
| 12 | loses | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 breaks | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loses | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kicks | cc |
| 15 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 loses | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tyre | det |
| 17 | tyre | tyre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kicks | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 goes | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 goes | cc |
| 20 | Aimee | Aimee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | nsubj |
| 21 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 breaks | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 still | advmod |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 goes | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 seat | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 seat | det |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seat | compound |
| 27 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goes | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | present | the car | Glasgow | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | Aimee's dad | car | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | kick | present | Aimee's dad not said here | the tyre | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | present | Aimee | the back seat | still | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in seat=Location |
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:23.
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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