Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 21

In Leeds, Maddox's mum has a long illness and can't come to sports day; Maddox tells his mates, «She's busy,» because he wants to protect her.

Who acts: mum, Maddox · What happens: have, not come, tell, be, want, protect · To what, where: long illness, Leeds, mates, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Maddox), 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	7 has	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Leeds	punct
4	Maddox	Maddox	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mum	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Maddox	case
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 illness	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 illness	amod
10	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 has	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 day	compound
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 tells	punct
19	Maddox	Maddox	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 tells	nsubj
20	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mates	nmod:poss
22	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tells	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tells	punct
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	27 busy	punct
25	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 busy	nsubj
26	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 busy	cop
27	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tells	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 busy	punct
29	»	»	PUNCT	_	27 busy	punct
30	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 wants	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wants	nsubj
32	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tells	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 protect	mark
34	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 wants	xcomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 protect	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Maddox's mum	a long illness		Leeds			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient
2	not come	can	Maddox's mum not said here				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	Maddox	Maddox's mates					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	mum					busy property	tree rules
5	want	present	Maddox						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	protect not said to happen	to-infinitive	Maddox not said here		mum				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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: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): 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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