Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 14
In Manchester, Lettie's mum is slurring her words and stumbling at tea time, and she forgets Lettie's school play.
Who acts: mum, Lettie · What happens: slur, stumble, forget, word, play · To what, where: words, Manchester, school play
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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, Lettie), 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 Manchester | case |
| 2 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slurring | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Manchester | punct |
| 4 | Lettie | Lettie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 mum | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lettie | case |
| 6 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slurring | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slurring | aux |
| 8 | slurring | slur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slurring | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stumbling | cc |
| 12 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 slurring | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | compound |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stumbling | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgets | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 forgets | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 forgets | nsubj |
| 19 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slurring | conj |
| 20 | Lettie | Lettie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 play | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Lettie | case |
| 22 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 play | compound |
| 23 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgets | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 slurring | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slur | present · progressive | Lettie's mum | mum's words | Manchester | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stumble | gerund | Lettie's mum not said here | time | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget | present | mum | Lettie's school play | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | word | mum | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | play | Lettie | nom play «communication intransitive»: poss=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:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:14.
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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