Parents who row, and one kind and one not, sentence 20
In Ohio, Dad is a «my way or the highway» guy (it means «do it my way or leave») and says no to Nate's soccer team, so Mom sneaks him to practice.
Who acts: Dad, row, Mom · What happens: be, mean, do, leave, say, sneak · To what, where: way guy, row, soccer team, Dad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» 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, row, Mom), 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 Ohio | case |
| 2 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 way | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ohio | punct |
| 4 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 guy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 guy | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 guy | det |
| 7 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 guy | compound |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 highway | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 highway | det |
| 12 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | conj |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 guy | punct |
| 14 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 guy | parataxis |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 means | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 leave | cc |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | conj |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 means | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 says | cc |
| 28 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 guy | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 Nate | det |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 team | case |
| 31 | Nate | Nate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 team | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 Nate | case |
| 33 | soccer | soccer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 team | compound |
| 34 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 says | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sneaks | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 sneaks | advmod |
| 37 | Mom | Mom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 sneaks | nsubj |
| 38 | sneaks | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 says | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sneaks | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 practice | mark |
| 41 | practice | practice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 sneaks | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 guy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dad | a way guy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | row | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | row | my way obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | Dad not said here | no Nate's soccer team | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to team=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | sneak | present | Mom | Dad | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent | ||||
| 7 | practice | to-infinitive | Mom not said here | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not.lesson:20.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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