Cold parents: always on the phone, sentence 26
In Edinburgh, Otto's dad hardly talks, but every Sunday he takes Otto fishing by the loch (Scots for lake).
Who acts: dad · What happens: talk, take, fish · To what, where: Otto, Edinburgh
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 (dad), 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 Edinburgh | case |
| 2 | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 takes | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 takes | punct |
| 4 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dad | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Otto | case |
| 6 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talks | nsubj |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 talks | advmod |
| 8 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 takes | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 takes | cc |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Sunday | det |
| 12 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 takes | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 takes | nsubj |
| 14 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 talks | conj |
| 15 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 takes | obj |
| 16 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 takes | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 loch | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 loch | det |
| 19 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fishing | obl |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Scots | punct |
| 21 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 takes | nmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 lake | case |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Scots | nmod |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Scots | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | Otto's dad | hardly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | present | Dad | Otto | Edinburgh | sunday | Scots for lake nmod | tree rules | |
| 3 | fish | gerund | Dad not said here | by the loch | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by loch=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:495-cold-parents-always-on-the-phone.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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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