Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 21

In Leeds, Juno tells her teacher, «Mum's busy,» about parents' evening, though she knows Mum just didn't want to come; she can tell her teacher how she feels.

Who acts: Juno, Mum · What happens: tell, be, know, not want, come, feel · To what, where: teacher, Leeds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cold parents: always on the phone» 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 (Juno, Mum), 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 Leeds	case
2	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leeds	punct
4	Juno	Juno	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tells	nsubj
5	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teacher	nmod:poss
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 busy	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 busy	punct
10	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 busy	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 busy	cop
12	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tells	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 busy	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 busy	punct
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 evening	case
16	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 evening	nmod:poss
17	'	's	PART	_	16 parents	case
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tells	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 knows	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 knows	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 knows	nsubj
22	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tells	advcl
23	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 want	nsubj
24	just	just	ADV	_	27 want	advmod
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 want	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 want	advmod
27	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 knows	ccomp
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 want	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tell	punct
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 tell	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	aux
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tells	parataxis
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 teacher	nmod:poss
35	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	iobj
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 feels	advmod
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 feels	nsubj
38	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tells	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Juno	Juno's teacher	Leeds	evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	Mum				busy property	tree rules
3	know	present	Juno					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	not want	past · do-support	Mum					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mum not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	can	Juno	Juno's teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient clause=Topic
7	feel	present	Juno					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.lesson:21.

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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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