Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 22

In Brisbane, Ty's mum never asks about his day, so after school, every arvo («arvo» is Aussie for afternoon), he tells his teacher everything instead.

Who acts: mum, arvo, Aussie · What happens: not ask, be, tell · To what, where: Brisbane, Aussie, arvo, teacher · 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 (mum, arvo, Aussie), 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 Brisbane	case
2	Brisbane	Brisbane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asks	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ty	punct
4	Ty	Ty	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mum	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Ty	case
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asks	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 asks	advmod
8	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 day	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 day	nmod:poss
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asks	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Aussie	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	30 tells	advmod
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 school	case
15	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tells	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 school	punct
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 arvo	det
18	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tells	obl:unmarked
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 arvo	punct
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 arvo	punct
21	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Aussie	nsubj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 arvo	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 Aussie	cop
24	Aussie	Aussie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 arvo	appos
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 afternoon	case
26	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Aussie	nmod
27	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 Aussie	punct
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tells	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tells	nsubj
30	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asks	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 teacher	nmod:poss
32	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tells	iobj
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 tells	obj
34	instead	instead	ADV	_	30 tells	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	present	Ty's mum			Brisbane	day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	arvo	Aussie			afternoon		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present	Aussie	every arvo	Aussie's teacher		after school	instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient everything=Topic

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:22.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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